AMD Ryzen 5 1500X vs Intel Xeon E5-2673 v3

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel 12 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

4747 points

42% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5184 points

9% slightly better gaming score

4747 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2778 points

4738 points

70% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2668 points

4727 points

77% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

64.62 points

150.60 points

133% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3735 points

144% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1528 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1114 points

137% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

470 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3681 points

141% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1527 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1109 points

55% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

712 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

200% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

200% significantly more threads

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

69% significantly lower TDP

110 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

499th of 1,089

370th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 1500X vs Xeon E5-2673 v3 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2673 v3 beats the Ryzen 5 1500X in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 1500X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2673 v3 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 1500X has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 1500X. A Ryzen 5 1500X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2673 v3 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1500X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.