Intel Xeon E3-1230 vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U

Compare Intel Xeon E3 Family 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 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

2180 points

2650 points

21% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3414 points

4215 points

23% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1814 points

2190 points

20% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1741 points

2104 points

20% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

29.69 points

47.87 points

61% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2572 points

2704 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

671 points

923 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1979 points

2612 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

585 points

903 points

54% significantly 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

3.2 GHz

52% significantly higher clock speed

2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

3.7 GHz

2% 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

686th of 1,089

602nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E3 Family

Ryzen 5 PRO Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 May

2019 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E3-1230 vs Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U performs better than the Xeon E3-1230. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1230 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E3-1230 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U outputs less heat than Xeon E3-1230 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.