Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7430U

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 6 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

5169 points
12% slightly better overall score
4590 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4558 points
6773 points
48% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5431 points
38% slightly better multitasking score
3928 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5595 points
47% significantly better heavy workload score
3794 points

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Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

106.21 points
22% slightly higher Blender score
86.99 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
33% slightly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
33% slightly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz
4% slightly higher clock speed
2.30 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.2 GHz
4.3 GHz
34% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

85 W
15 W
466% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
100% significantly more memory channels
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

346th of 1,118
399th of 1,118

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family
Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

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No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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Xeon E5-2630 v3 vs Ryzen 5 7430U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2630 v3 beats the Ryzen 5 7430U in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7430U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2630 v3 has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 7430U that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7430U. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2630 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 7430U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7430U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7430U outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2630 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 E5-2630 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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