AMD Ryzen 7 3700U vs Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Mobile with Radeon RX Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs Intel 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2

Price

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$ 1963.00

$ 189.95

$ 1773.05 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2551 points

0.28% slightly better overall score

2544 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4199 points

3% slightly better gaming score

4070 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2073 points

2091 points

0.87% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1989 points

2009 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

46.48 points

16% slightly higher Blender score

39.80 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz

3.30 GHz

43% significantly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB

8 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

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Ranking in the hardwareDB database

615th of 1,089

618th of 1,089

Family

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Ryzen 7 Mobile with Radeon RX Vega Graphics

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Ryzen 7 3700U vs Xeon E3-1230 V2 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 3700U performs better than the Xeon E3-1230 V2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1230 V2 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E3-1230 V2 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 3700U. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 3700U 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 7 3700U.

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 7 3700U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.