AMD Ryzen 5 3500X vs Intel Xeon E5-2660 v3

Compare AMD 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2660 v3

Price

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$ 130.00

$ 59.95 significantly less expensive

$ 189.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4161 points

4% slightly better overall score

3996 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6597 points

56% significantly better gaming score

4213 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3390 points

3900 points

15% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3252 points

3849 points

18% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.91 points

129.03 points

50% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5905 points

5920 points

0.25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1536 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

975 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5889 points

5959 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1572 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

985 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

233% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

38% slightly higher clock speed

2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz

24% slightly higher turbo speed

3.3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

61% significantly lower TDP

105 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

423rd of 1,089

436th 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

DDR4-1600

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 E5-2660 v3 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 3500X performs better than the Xeon E5-2660 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2660 v3 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2660 v3 has significantly more cores with 10 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 E5-2660 v3. Also, the Ryzen 5 3500X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3500X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2660 v3 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. For instance, the Ryzen 5 3500X has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.