Intel Xeon E3-1230 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Compare Intel Xeon E3 v3 Family 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Price

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$ 278.50

$ 74.99

$ 203.51 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2545 points

5931 points

133% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3940 points

7969 points

102% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2128 points

5267 points

147% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2046 points

5102 points

149% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3667 points

5451 points

48% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

61.88 points

141.88 points

129% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3681 points

7589 points

106% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1126 points

1833 points

62% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3699 points

7653 points

106% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1160 points

1872 points

61% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

3.6 GHz

9% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

4.2 GHz

13% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

80 W

65 W

23% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

617th of 1,089

256th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E3 v3 Family

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 May

2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E3-1230 v3 vs Ryzen 5 5500 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5500 is faster than the Xeon E3-1230 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1230 v3 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 5 5500 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Xeon E3-1230 v3 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1230 v3. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1230 v3. Also, the Ryzen 5 5500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5500 outputs less heat than Xeon E3-1230 v3 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 Xeon E3-1230 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.