AMD Ryzen 7 3700U vs Intel Xeon E3-1230

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Mobile with Radeon RX Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E3 Family 4 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

$ 1963.00
$ 265.87
$ 1697.13 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2551 points
17% slightly better overall score
2180 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4199 points
22% slightly better gaming score
3414 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2073 points
14% slightly better multitasking score
1814 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1989 points
14% slightly better heavy workload score
1741 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

46.48 points
56% significantly higher Blender score
29.69 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2494 points
2572 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

867 points
29% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
671 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2670 points
34% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1979 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

916 points
56% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
585 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
Identical
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz
3.2 GHz
39% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
11% slightly higher turbo speed
3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
433% significantly lower TDP
80 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

615th of 1,089
686th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Mobile with Radeon RX Vega Graphics
Xeon E3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January
2011 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 7 3700U vs Xeon E3-1230 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 3700U performs better than the Xeon E3-1230. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1230 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E3-1230 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 3700U. A Ryzen 7 3700U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E3-1230 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 7 3700U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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