AMD Ryzen 5 1500X vs Intel Xeon E5-2620

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 Family 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2620

Price

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$ 79.99

$ 127.16 significantly less expensive

$ 207.15

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3338 points

23% slightly better overall score

2694 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5184 points

61% significantly better gaming score

3212 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2778 points

9% slightly better multitasking score

2534 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2668 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

2503 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

64.62 points

65% significantly higher Blender score

38.93 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3735 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2793 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1114 points

142% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

459 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3681 points

93% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1902 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1109 points

184% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

390 points

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

3.5 GHz

75% significantly higher clock speed

2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

47% significantly higher turbo speed

2.5 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

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

499th of 1,089

591st 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 E5-2620 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 1500X beats the Xeon E5-2620 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2620 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2620 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 1500X that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 1500X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 1500X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2620. Also, the Ryzen 5 1500X has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 1500X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2620 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.