AMD Ryzen 5 3450U vs Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2

Ryzen 5 3450U vs Xeon E3-1230 V2 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E3-1230 V2 beats the Ryzen 5 3450U in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3450U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E3-1230 V2 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 3450U. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 3450U has more L2 cache than the Xeon E3-1230 V2. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1230 V2 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 3450U.

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 3450U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.