Intel Xeon E3-1230 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7520U

Compare Intel Xeon E3 v3 Family 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 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

2684 points

3089 points

15% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4338 points

4905 points

13% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2195 points

2545 points

15% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2107 points

2445 points

16% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

61.88 points

64.47 points

4% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3699 points

0.38% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

3685 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1160 points

1171 points

0.95% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

17% slightly higher clock speed

2.80 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

4.3 GHz

16% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

80 W

15 W

433% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

615th of 1,118

546th of 1,118

Family

The product line

Xeon E3 v3 Family

Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 May

2022 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

LPDDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E3-1230 v3 vs Ryzen 5 7520U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 7520U 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.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E3-1230 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 7520U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7520U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7520U outputs less heat than Xeon E3-1230 v3 thanks to a significantly 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.