Intel Xeon X5680 vs AMD Ryzen 3 4100

Compare Intel Xeon 6 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 147.98
$ 59.40
$ 88.58 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4570 points
17% slightly better overall score
3892 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4503 points
6333 points
40% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4578 points
44% significantly better multitasking score
3162 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4568 points
50% significantly better heavy workload score
3035 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

56.43 points
80.44 points
42% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2476 points
4865 points
96% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

532 points
1512 points
184% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
49% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
49% significantly more threads
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.33 GHz
3.80 GHz
14% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz
4 GHz
11% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W
65 W
100% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

3
49% significantly more memory channels
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.02 MiB
2 MiB
9652% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

1 MiB
4 MiB
300% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

400th of 1,118
463rd of 1,118

Family

The product line

Xeon
Ryzen 3 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2010 February
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
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Xeon X5680 vs Ryzen 3 4100 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon X5680 beats the Ryzen 3 4100 in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 3 4100 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon X5680 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Ryzen 3 4100 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 4100. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 3 4100 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon X5680. Also, the Ryzen 3 4100 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 3 4100 outputs less heat than Xeon X5680 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 3 4100 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon X5680. The Ryzen 3 4100 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 X5680 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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