Intel Xeon E5-2678 v3 vs AMD Ryzen AI 5 340

Compare Intel 12 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

5409 points
5440 points
0.57% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5325 points
7698 points
44% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5414 points
13% slightly better multitasking score
4785 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5392 points
16% slightly better heavy workload score
4637 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

164.10 points
7% slightly higher Blender score
152.57 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6701 points
9225 points
37% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1012 points
2369 points
134% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
100% significantly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
100% significantly more threads
12

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

120 W
28 W
328% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

303rd of 1,089
299th of 1,089

Family

The product line

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Ryzen AI 300 Series

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR5

Xeon E5-2678 v3 vs Ryzen AI 5 340 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen AI 5 340 performs better than the Xeon E5-2678 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2678 v3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2678 v3 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen AI 5 340. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2678 v3 has 12 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen AI 5 340. It also has more threads than the Ryzen AI 5 340. The Ryzen AI 5 340 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2678 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 E5-2678 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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