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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AMD Ryzen 3 4100

Price

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$ 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

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

56.43 points

80.44 points

42% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2476 points

4865 points

96% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) 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

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

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

49% significantly more memory channels

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

383rd of 1,089

443rd of 1,089

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

Xeon X5680 vs Ryzen 3 4100 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 3 4100 beats the Xeon X5680 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon X5680 in all gaming tests too.

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. 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.