Intel Xeon W3580 vs AMD Athlon 3000G

Xeon W3580 vs Athlon 3000G specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Athlon 3000G beats the Xeon W3580 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon W3580 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon W3580 has significantly more cores than the Athlon 3000G. Indeed, the Xeon W3580 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Athlon 3000G. It also has more threads than the Athlon 3000G. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon 3000G has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon W3580. The Athlon 3000G outputs less heat than Xeon W3580 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Xeon W3580 also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Xeon W3580 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.