AMD Ryzen 5 2500U vs Intel Xeon E3-1220 v3

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E3 v3 Family 4 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

1996 points

2007 points

0.55% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3127 points

3728 points

19% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1653 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

1528 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1584 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

1468 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

41.24 points

50.68 points

22% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2311 points

2942 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

830 points

1026 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2396 points

3227 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

818 points

1124 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2 GHz

3.1 GHz

55% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

433% significantly lower TDP

80 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

718th of 1,089

713th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

Xeon E3 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 October

2013 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 5 2500U vs Xeon E3-1220 v3 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E3-1220 v3 is faster than the Ryzen 5 2500U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 2500U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Ryzen 5 2500U has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E3-1220 v3 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 2500U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 2500U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 2500U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E3-1220 v3 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 2500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.