AMD Ryzen 5 3500 vs Intel Xeon E5-2689

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 8 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

4057 points

4209 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6490 points

33% slightly better gaming score

4875 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3294 points

3976 points

20% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3162 points

3900 points

23% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.14 points

8% slightly higher Blender score

78.82 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

166% significantly more threads

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

76% significantly lower TDP

115 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

430th of 1,089

418th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 3500 vs Xeon E5-2689 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 3500 performs better than the Xeon E5-2689. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2689 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2689 has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 3500 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3500. A Ryzen 5 3500 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2689 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. For instance, the Ryzen 5 3500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.