Intel Xeon E5-2609 v3 vs AMD Athlon 3000G

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 6 core CPU vs AMD Athlon Desktop 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

Benchmark Score
Other Benchmarks
Specifications
Comments (0)
Popular Comparisons

CPU Comparison

Quickly search and compare processors

AMD Athlon 3000G

Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 198.95

$ 69.99

$ 128.96 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1767 points

19% slightly better overall score

1477 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2784 points

1% slightly better gaming score

2742 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1446 points

27% slightly better multitasking score

1135 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1388 points

26% slightly better heavy workload score

1095 points

Free CPU Benchmark

Want to compare your processor against the Xeon E5-2609 v3 and the Athlon 3000G? Download our free and quick PC Performance Test.

Download CPU Benchmark

Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2526 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1966 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

461 points

957 points

107% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2743 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1970 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

617 points

956 points

54% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

200% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.9 GHz

3.5 GHz

84% significantly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

80 W

35 W

128% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

763rd of 1,089

813th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Athlon Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

2019 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2609 v3 vs Athlon 3000G comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2609 v3 performs better than the Athlon 3000G. Despite this, the Athlon 3000G has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2609 v3 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Athlon 3000G has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Athlon 3000G. Our comparison shows that the Athlon 3000G has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2609 v3. The Athlon 3000G outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2609 v3 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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. For instance, the Xeon E5-2609 v3 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.