Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2 vs AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D

Xeon E3-1230 V2 vs Ryzen 7 9800X3D comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D 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 9800X3D has significantly more cores than the Xeon E3-1230 V2. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D 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. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1230 V2. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has significantly more L2 cache than the Xeon E3-1230 V2. The Ryzen 7 9800X3D 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.