AMD Ryzen 5 3600X vs Intel Xeon E5-2640 v3

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 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 E5-2640 v3

Price

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$ 99.99

$ 63.20

$ 36.79 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5119 points

0.79% slightly better overall score

5079 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6906 points

32% slightly better gaming score

5205 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4555 points

5069 points

11% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4415 points

5131 points

16% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

136.91 points

21% slightly higher Blender score

113.01 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6958 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

5241 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1612 points

60% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1004 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7073 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

5384 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1665 points

60% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1040 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz

46% significantly higher clock speed

2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz

29% slightly higher turbo speed

3.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

90 W

5% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

336th of 1,089

341st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-1600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 5 3600X vs Xeon E5-2640 v3 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2640 v3 performs better than the Ryzen 5 3600X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3600X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2640 v3 has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 3600X that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3600X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 3600X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2640 v3. Also, the Ryzen 5 3600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2640 v3 outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 3600X thanks to a 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. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.