AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT vs Intel Xeon E5-2699 v3

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 18 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2699 v3

Price

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$ 230.00

$ 299.95 significantly less expensive

$ 529.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7216 points

7% slightly better overall score

6700 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8527 points

64% significantly better gaming score

5199 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6778 points

7270 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6644 points

7597 points

14% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

185.87 points

219.38 points

18% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

125% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

125% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.9 GHz

69% significantly higher clock speed

2.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz

30% slightly higher turbo speed

3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W

38% slightly lower TDP

145 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

176th of 1,089

210th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 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 7 3800XT vs Xeon E5-2699 v3 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2699 v3 is faster than the Ryzen 7 3800XT. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 3800XT in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2699 v3 has significantly more cores with 18 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 3800XT has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 3800XT. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 3800XT has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2699 v3. Also, the Ryzen 7 3800XT has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 3800XT CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2699 v3 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 3800XT has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.