AMD Ryzen 5 3400G vs Intel Xeon X5680

Ryzen 5 3400G vs Xeon X5680 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon X5680 beats the Ryzen 5 3400G in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3400G has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon X5680 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 3400G that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3400G. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 3400G has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon X5680. Also, the Ryzen 5 3400G has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3400G CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon X5680 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3400G has significantly more L2 cache than the Xeon X5680. The Ryzen 5 3400G also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3400G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.