AMD Ryzen 7 5800X vs Intel Xeon E3-1240 v3

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E3 v3 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7869 points

193% significantly better overall score

2685 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9478 points

128% significantly better gaming score

4156 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7328 points

226% significantly better multitasking score

2246 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7169 points

232% significantly better heavy workload score

2159 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

213.11 points

207% significantly higher Blender score

69.40 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10085 points

169% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

3742 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2119 points

85% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1145 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10211 points

176% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

3690 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2193 points

85% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1181 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz

11% slightly higher clock speed

3.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz

23% slightly higher turbo speed

3.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W

80 W

31% slightly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

25% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

300% significantly more supported memory

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

151st of 1,089

594th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop

Xeon E3 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2013 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 7 5800X vs Xeon E3-1240 v3 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 5800X beats the Xeon E3-1240 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1240 v3 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 5800X has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Xeon E3-1240 v3 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1240 v3. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 5800X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E3-1240 v3. Also, the Ryzen 7 5800X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E3-1240 v3 outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 5800X thanks to a 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 5800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.