AMD Ryzen 5 3500X vs Intel Xeon E5-2630 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 130.00
$ 329.00 significantly less expensive
$ 459.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4161 points
5169 points
24% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6597 points
44% significantly better gaming score
4558 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3390 points
5431 points
60% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3252 points
5595 points
72% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.91 points
106.21 points
23% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5905 points
21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
4845 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1536 points
68% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
913 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5889 points
16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
5055 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1572 points
66% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
944 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
8
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

6
16
166% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
49% significantly higher clock speed
2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz
28% slightly higher turbo speed
3.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
30% slightly lower TDP
85 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

423rd of 1,089
330th of 1,089

Family

The product line

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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

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DDR4-1600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

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Yes

Ryzen 5 3500X vs Xeon E5-2630 v3 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2630 v3 beats the Ryzen 5 3500X in overall performance. 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 E5-2630 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. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3500X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2630 v3. Also, the Ryzen 5 3500X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3500X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2630 v3 CPU because of its slightly 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. For instance, the Ryzen 5 3500X has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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