AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT vs Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 12 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

$ 129.99
$ 93.80 significantly less expensive
$ 223.79

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4503 points
5940 points
31% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6227 points
17% slightly better gaming score
5278 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3971 points
6174 points
55% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3849 points
6288 points
63% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

139.64 points
163.08 points
16% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7102 points
6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
6648 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1673 points
77% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
941 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7245 points
14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
6340 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1728 points
73% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
996 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
12
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
24
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
52% significantly higher clock speed
2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz
36% slightly higher turbo speed
3.3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
26% slightly lower TDP
120 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

389th of 1,089
254th 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 E5-2680 v3 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 3600XT beats the Xeon E5-2680 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2680 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2680 v3 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 3600XT has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3600XT. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3600XT has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2680 v3. Also, the Ryzen 5 3600XT has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3600XT CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2680 v3 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3600XT has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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