AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U vs Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2

Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U vs Xeon E3-1230 V2 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U 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.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E3-1230 V2 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon E3-1230 V2. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1230 V2 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U.

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 PRO 3500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.