Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 9 9900X

Compare Intel Xeon E3 v3 Family 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 12 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 49.38
$ 319.62 significantly less expensive
$ 369.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2675 points
13788 points
415% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4187 points
14026 points
234% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2229 points
13725 points
515% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2142 points
13727 points
540% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2287 points
13920 points
508% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

65.17 points
462.53 points
609% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3756 points
19790 points
426% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1192 points
3339 points
180% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
12
200% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
24
200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz
4.4 GHz
29% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz
5.6 GHz
47% significantly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

80 W
49% significantly lower TDP
120 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

598th of 1,089
35th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E3 v3 Family
Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 May
2024 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
-

Xeon E3-1231 v3 vs Ryzen 9 9900X specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 9900X beats the Xeon E3-1231 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1231 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 9900X has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Xeon E3-1231 v3 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1231 v3. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 9900X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1231 v3. Also, the Ryzen 9 9900X has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Xeon E3-1231 v3 CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 9 9900X CPU because of its 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 E3-1231 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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