AMD Ryzen 5 1500X vs Intel Xeon E5-1620

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-1620

Price

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$ 79.99

$ 73.09 significantly less expensive

$ 153.08

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3338 points

22% slightly better overall score

2735 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5184 points

21% slightly better gaming score

4274 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2778 points

21% slightly better multitasking score

2280 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2668 points

21% slightly better heavy workload score

2192 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

64.62 points

58% significantly higher Blender score

40.70 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3735 points

63% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2284 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1114 points

88% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

592 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3681 points

64% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2244 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1109 points

81% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

611 points

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

3.6 GHz

2% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

3.8 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

100% significantly lower TDP

130 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

499th of 1,089

582nd 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 1500X vs Xeon E5-1620 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 1500X performs better than the Xeon E5-1620. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1620 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-1620 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 1500X. Also, the Xeon E5-1620 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 1500X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1620 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.