Intel Xeon E5-2650 v2 vs AMD Ryzen 3 4100

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 3 Desktop 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 3 4100

Price

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$ 185.00

$ 59.40

$ 125.60 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4421 points

13% slightly better overall score

3892 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4704 points

6333 points

34% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4321 points

36% slightly better multitasking score

3162 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4302 points

41% slightly better heavy workload score

3035 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

71.99 points

80.44 points

11% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3167 points

4865 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

518 points

1512 points

191% significantly 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

2.6 GHz

3.80 GHz

46% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz

4 GHz

17% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

65 W

46% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

416th of 1,118

463rd of 1,118

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v2 Family

Ryzen 3 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 August

2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2650 v2 vs Ryzen 3 4100 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2650 v2 performs better than the Ryzen 3 4100. Despite this, the Ryzen 3 4100 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2650 v2 has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 3 4100 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 4100. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 3 4100 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2650 v2. Also, the Ryzen 3 4100 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 3 4100 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2650 v2 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 E5-2650 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.