Intel Xeon E5-2660 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 3 4100

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 10 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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$ 189.95

$ 59.40

$ 130.55 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3996 points

2% slightly better overall score

3892 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4213 points

6333 points

50% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3900 points

23% slightly better multitasking score

3162 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3849 points

26% slightly better heavy workload score

3035 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

129.03 points

60% significantly higher Blender score

80.44 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5959 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

4865 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

985 points

1512 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

150% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

150% 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

3.3 GHz

4 GHz

21% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W

65 W

61% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

452nd of 1,118

463rd of 1,118

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Ryzen 3 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2660 v3 vs Ryzen 3 4100 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2660 v3 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 E5-2660 v3 has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 3 4100 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 4100. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 3 4100 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2660 v3. Also, the Ryzen 3 4100 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 3 4100 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2660 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 E5-2660 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.