Intel Xeon E5-1660 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 5350G

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen PRO 5000 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

4392 points

4446 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5377 points

7056 points

31% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4064 points

11% slightly better multitasking score

3657 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3979 points

13% slightly better heavy workload score

3510 points

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Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7100 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

5360 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1291 points

1812 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz

4.00 GHz

33% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz

4.2 GHz

20% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

140 W

65 W

115% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

419th of 1,119

411th of 1,119

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Ryzen PRO 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

2021 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1333

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-1660 v3 vs Ryzen 3 PRO 5350G specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 3 PRO 5350G beats the Xeon E5-1660 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1660 v3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-1660 v3 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 3 PRO 5350G. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1660 v3 has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 3 PRO 5350G. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 PRO 5350G. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 3 PRO 5350G has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-1660 v3. Also, the Ryzen 3 PRO 5350G has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 3 PRO 5350G outputs less heat than Xeon E5-1660 v3 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 E5-1660 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.