AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT vs Intel Xeon E5-2697 v3

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 14 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2697 v3

Price

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$ 129.99

$ 125.60 significantly less expensive

$ 255.59

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4503 points

5860 points

30% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6227 points

27% slightly better gaming score

4866 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3971 points

6204 points

56% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3849 points

6340 points

64% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

139.64 points

192.94 points

38% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7102 points

7657 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1673 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1060 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7245 points

7404 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1728 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1086 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

133% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

133% significantly 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

25% slightly higher turbo speed

3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

52% significantly lower TDP

145 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

389th of 1,089

263rd 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 E5-2697 v3 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 3600XT performs better than the Xeon E5-2697 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2697 v3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2697 v3 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 3600XT. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2697 v3 has 14 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 3600XT. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3600XT. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 3600XT has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2697 v3. Also, the Ryzen 5 3600XT has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3600XT CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2697 v3 CPU because of its significantly 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 3600XT has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.