AMD Ryzen 5 3500U vs Intel Xeon E3-1230

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E3 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E3-1230

Price

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$ 1458.00

$ 265.87

$ 1192.13 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2357 points

8% slightly better overall score

2180 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3808 points

11% slightly better gaming score

3414 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1930 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

1814 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1850 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

1741 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.23 points

25% slightly higher Blender score

29.69 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2457 points

2572 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

862 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

671 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2505 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1979 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

875 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

585 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz

3.2 GHz

52% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

433% significantly lower TDP

80 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

650th of 1,089

686th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

Xeon E3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

2011 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 5 3500U vs Xeon E3-1230 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 3500U performs better than the Xeon E3-1230. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1230 in all gaming tests too.

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 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 3500U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3500U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3500U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E3-1230 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.