AMD Ryzen 5 3500X vs Intel Xeon E5-1660 v3

Compare AMD 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-1660 v3

Price

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$ 130.00

$ 69.26 significantly less expensive

$ 199.26

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4161 points

4392 points

5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6597 points

22% slightly better gaming score

5377 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3390 points

4064 points

19% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3252 points

3979 points

22% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.91 points

148.95 points

73% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5905 points

8091 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1536 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1373 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5889 points

7100 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1572 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1291 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

166% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

20% slightly higher clock speed

3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz

17% slightly higher turbo speed

3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

115% significantly lower TDP

140 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

423rd of 1,089

401st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 September

2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 5 3500X vs Xeon E5-1660 v3 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-1660 v3 performs better than the Ryzen 5 3500X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3500X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-1660 v3 has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 3500X that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3500X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 3500X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-1660 v3. Also, the Ryzen 5 3500X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3500X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1660 v3 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. For instance, the Ryzen 5 3500X has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.