AMD Ryzen 5 1500X vs Intel Xeon E3-1535M v6

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E3 v6 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3338 points

14% slightly better overall score

2904 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5184 points

10% slightly better gaming score

4700 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2778 points

16% slightly better multitasking score

2376 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2668 points

17% slightly better heavy workload score

2279 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

64.62 points

9% slightly higher Blender score

58.91 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3735 points

4067 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1114 points

1275 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3681 points

3836 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1109 points

1254 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

13% slightly higher clock speed

3.10 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

4.2 GHz

13% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

45 W

44% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

499th of 1,089

551st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Xeon E3 v6 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

2017 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 5 1500X vs Xeon E3-1535M v6 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E3-1535M v6 performs better than the Ryzen 5 1500X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 1500X in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 1500X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E3-1535M v6. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1535M v6 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E3-1535M v6 outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 1500X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 1500X has more L2 cache than the Xeon E3-1535M v6. The Ryzen 5 1500X also has significantly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1500X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.