AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2

Ryzen 5 3600 vs Xeon E3-1230 V2 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 3600 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 3600 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Xeon E3-1230 V2 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1230 V2. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 3600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1230 V2. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3600 has significantly more L2 cache than the Xeon E3-1230 V2. The Ryzen 5 3600 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.