AMD Ryzen 5 1400 vs Intel Xeon E5-2650

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 Family 8 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

$ 417.00
$ 103.11
$ 313.89 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2653 points
2944 points
10% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4214 points
20% slightly better gaming score
3493 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2184 points
2761 points
26% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2097 points
2710 points
29% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

52.99 points
58.36 points
10% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3185 points
4002 points
25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

955 points
85% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
515 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3133 points
22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
2564 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

962 points
138% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
403 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
16
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz
60% significantly higher clock speed
2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz
21% slightly higher turbo speed
2.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
46% significantly lower TDP
95 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
4
100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

601st of 1,089
547th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November
2012 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 5 1400 vs Xeon E5-2650 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2650 beats the Ryzen 5 1400 in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 1400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2650 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 1400. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2650 has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 5 1400. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 1400. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 1400 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2650. Also, the Ryzen 5 1400 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 1400 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2650 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 Ryzen 5 1400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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