AMD Ryzen 5 3400G vs Intel Xeon E5-2678 v3

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs Intel 12 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3411 points

5409 points

58% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5261 points

5325 points

1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2847 points

5414 points

90% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2733 points

5392 points

97% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3972 points

7650 points

92% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

68.88 points

164.10 points

138% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3543 points

6377 points

79% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1107 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

967 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3624 points

6701 points

84% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1137 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1012 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

200% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

200% significantly more threads

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

84% significantly lower TDP

120 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

495th of 1,089

303rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop with Radeon Vega Graphics

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 3400G vs Xeon E5-2678 v3 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2678 v3 beats the Ryzen 5 3400G in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3400G has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2678 v3 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 3400G has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3400G. A Ryzen 5 3400G CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2678 v3 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3400G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.