AMD Ryzen 5 1500X vs Intel Xeon E5-2620 v3

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 6 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

$ 79.99
$ 69.96 significantly less expensive
$ 149.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3338 points
4% slightly better overall score
3203 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5184 points
21% slightly better gaming score
4260 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2778 points
2869 points
3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2668 points
2793 points
4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

64.62 points
75.06 points
16% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3735 points
3929 points
5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1114 points
23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
901 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3681 points
4121 points
11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1109 points
17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
947 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
12
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz
45% significantly higher clock speed
2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz
15% slightly higher turbo speed
3.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
30% slightly lower TDP
85 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
4
100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

499th of 1,089
510th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November
2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-1600

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 v3 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2620 v3 is faster than the Ryzen 5 1500X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 1500X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2620 v3 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 1500X. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2620 v3 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 5 1500X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 1500X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1500X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2620 v3. Also, the Ryzen 5 1500X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 1500X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2620 v3 CPU because of its slightly 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 1500X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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