Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2 vs AMD Ryzen 7 9700X

Compare Intel 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 8 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

$ 189.95
$ 111.61 significantly less expensive
$ 301.56

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2544 points
11120 points
337% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4070 points
13778 points
238% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2091 points
10239 points
389% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2009 points
9995 points
397% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

39.80 points
302.05 points
658% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
16
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.30 GHz
3.8 GHz
15% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB
8 MiB
700% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
32 MiB
300% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

618th of 1,089
67th of 1,089

Family

The product line

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Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2024 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

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Yes

Xeon E3-1230 V2 vs Ryzen 7 9700X specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 9700X 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.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 9700X has significantly more cores than the Xeon E3-1230 V2. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 9700X has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Xeon E3-1230 V2. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1230 V2. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 9700X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E3-1230 V2. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 7 9700X has more L2 cache than the Xeon E3-1230 V2. The Ryzen 7 9700X also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Xeon E3-1230 V2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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