AMD Ryzen 5 3500 vs Intel Xeon E5-2650 v2

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4057 points
3% slightly better overall score
3906 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6490 points
41% slightly better gaming score
4582 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3294 points
3673 points
11% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3162 points
3610 points
14% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.14 points
18% slightly higher Blender score
71.99 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5320 points
64% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
3234 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1456 points
175% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
528 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5422 points
71% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
3167 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1517 points
192% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
518 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
8
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

6
16
166% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
38% slightly higher clock speed
2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz
20% slightly higher turbo speed
3.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
46% significantly lower TDP
95 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
4
100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

432nd of 1,092
444th of 1,092

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
Xeon E5 v2 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2013 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

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Yes

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