AMD Ryzen 5 3500U vs Intel Xeon E3-1230 v3

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E3 v3 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E3-1230 v3

Price

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$ 1458.00

$ 278.50

$ 1179.50 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2357 points

2545 points

7% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3808 points

3940 points

3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1930 points

2128 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1850 points

2046 points

10% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.23 points

61.88 points

66% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2457 points

3681 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

862 points

1126 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2505 points

3699 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

875 points

1160 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

3.3 GHz

57% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

Identical

3.7 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

617th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

Xeon E3 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

2013 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

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 v3 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E3-1230 v3 beats the Ryzen 5 3500U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3500U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E3-1230 v3 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 3500U. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3500U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E3-1230 v3 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 3500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.