Intel Xeon E3-1230 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Family
  Intel Xeon E3 AMD Ryzen
• Generation
  4 4
• CPU group
  Intel Xeon E3 v3 AMD Ryzen 5000G

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Frequency
  3.30 GHz 3.60 GHz
• Overclocking
  No Yes
• Core architecture
  normal normal

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  no iGPU no iGPU
• GPU frequency
  --
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  --
• Shader
  --
• Max. displays
  --
• Generation
  --
• Technology
  --
• Release date
  --

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• h264
  No No
• VP9
  No No
• VP8
  No No
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  No No
• VC-1
  No No
• JPEG
  No No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Ryzen 5 5500 and Intel Xeon E3-1230 v3. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3-1600 DDR4-3200
• Max. Memory
  64 GB
• ECC
  Yes No
• Memory channels
  2 2

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon E3-1230 v3 and AMD Ryzen 5 5500 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  80 W 65 W
• TDP down
  -- 45 W
• Tjunction max.
  -- 95 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon E3-1230 v3 and Intel Xeon E3-1230 v3, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d AMD-V, SVM
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• L2-Cache
  -- 3.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  8.00 MB 16.00 MB
• Architecture
  Haswell S Cezanne (Zen 3)
• Technology
  22 nm 7 nm
• Socket
  LGA 1150 AM4
• Release date
  Q2/2013 Q2/2022