Intel Xeon E3-1270 V2 vs AMD Ryzen 3 4100

Xeon E3-1270 V2 vs Ryzen 3 4100 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 3 4100 beats the Xeon E3-1270 V2 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1270 V2 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. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 3 4100 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1270 V2. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 3 4100 has significantly more L2 cache than the Xeon E3-1270 V2. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1270 V2 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 3 4100.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Xeon E3-1270 V2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.