AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT 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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$ 129.99

$ 63.20

$ 66.79 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4503 points

5079 points

12% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6227 points

19% slightly better gaming score

5205 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3971 points

5069 points

27% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3849 points

5131 points

33% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

139.64 points

23% slightly higher Blender score

113.01 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7102 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

5241 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1673 points

66% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1004 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7245 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

5384 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1728 points

66% 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

4.5 GHz

32% 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

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

389th 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

2020 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 3600XT vs Xeon E5-2640 v3 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2640 v3 beats the Ryzen 5 3600XT in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3600XT has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2640 v3 has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 3600XT. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2640 v3 has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 3600XT. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3600XT. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 3600XT has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2640 v3. Also, the Ryzen 5 3600XT has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2640 v3 outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 3600XT thanks to a slightly 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. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3600XT has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.