AMD Ryzen 5 1500X vs Intel Xeon E5-2678 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

5409 points

62% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5184 points

5325 points

2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2778 points

5414 points

94% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2668 points

5392 points

102% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3720 points

7650 points

105% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

64.62 points

164.10 points

153% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3735 points

6377 points

70% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1114 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

967 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3681 points

6701 points

82% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1109 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1012 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

84% significantly lower TDP

120 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

499th of 1,089

303rd 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 E5-2678 v3 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2678 v3 beats the Ryzen 5 1500X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 1500X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2678 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 E5-2678 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.