AMD Ryzen 5 3500X vs Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2

Ryzen 5 3500X vs Xeon E3-1230 V2 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 3500X beats the Xeon E3-1230 V2 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1230 V2 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 3500X has significantly more cores than the Xeon E3-1230 V2. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3500X has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Xeon E3-1230 V2. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1230 V2 has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3500X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3500X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1230 V2. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 3500X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon E3-1230 V2. The Ryzen 5 3500X also has significantly more L3 cache.

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. For instance, the Ryzen 5 3500X has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.