AMD Ryzen 5 3500 vs Intel Xeon E5-2650 v2

Ryzen 5 3500 vs Xeon E5-2650 v2 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 3500 beats the Xeon E5-2650 v2 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2650 v2 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2650 v2 has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 3500. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2650 v2 has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 3500. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3500. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2650 v2. Also, the Ryzen 5 3500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3500 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2650 v2 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. For instance, the Ryzen 5 3500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.