Intel Xeon E5-2640 v3 vs AMD Ryzen AI 5 340

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series 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

5079 points

5440 points

7% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5205 points

7698 points

47% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5069 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

4785 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5131 points

10% slightly better heavy workload score

4637 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

113.01 points

152.57 points

35% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5384 points

9225 points

71% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1040 points

2369 points

127% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz

30% slightly higher clock speed

2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz

4.8 GHz

41% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

90 W

28 W

221% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

341st of 1,089

299th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Ryzen AI 300 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

DDR5

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2640 v3 vs Ryzen AI 5 340 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen AI 5 340 beats the Xeon E5-2640 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2640 v3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2640 v3 has slightly more cores than the Ryzen AI 5 340. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2640 v3 has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen AI 5 340. It also has more threads than the Ryzen AI 5 340. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2640 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen AI 5 340. Despite this, the Ryzen AI 5 340 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen AI 5 340 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2640 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 E5-2640 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.