Intel Xeon E3-1280 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 3700U

Compare Intel Xeon E3 v3 Family 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen PRO 3000 Series 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

2814 points

0.68% slightly better overall score

2795 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4480 points

4675 points

4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2320 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

2258 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2227 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

2176 points

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Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3457 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2545 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

956 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

911 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3800 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2954 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1215 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

929 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

56% significantly higher clock speed

2.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

Identical

4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

82 W

15 W

446% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

567th of 1,089

570th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E3 v3 Family

Ryzen PRO 3000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 May

2019 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E3-1280 v3 vs Ryzen 7 PRO 3700U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E3-1280 v3 beats the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700U in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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 E3-1280 v3 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700U. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 PRO 3700U outputs less heat than Xeon E3-1280 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 E3-1280 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.