AMD Ryzen 5 1500X vs Intel Xeon E5-2640 v4

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2640 v4

Price

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$ 79.99

$ 39.90

$ 40.09 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3338 points

4409 points

32% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5184 points

5193 points

0.17% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2778 points

4156 points

49% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2668 points

4086 points

53% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

64.62 points

127.64 points

97% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3735 points

5966 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1114 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1033 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3681 points

5632 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1109 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1047 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

150% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

150% 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

8% slightly higher turbo speed

3.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

38% slightly lower TDP

90 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

399th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Xeon E5 v4 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

2016 February

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 E5-2640 v4 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2640 v4 is faster than the Ryzen 5 1500X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 1500X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2640 v4 has significantly more cores with 10 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 E5-2640 v4. Also, the Ryzen 5 1500X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 1500X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2640 v4 CPU because of its slightly 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.