AMD Ryzen 5 3500 vs Intel Xeon E5-2696 v3

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 18 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

6495 points

60% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6490 points

13% slightly better gaming score

5724 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3294 points

6803 points

106% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3162 points

6991 points

121% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4797 points

6829 points

42% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.14 points

231.70 points

172% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5320 points

7392 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1456 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1060 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5422 points

8186 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1517 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1134 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

200% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

499% significantly more threads

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

123% significantly lower TDP

145 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

430th of 1,089

221st 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 E5-2696 v3 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 beats the Ryzen 5 3500 in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2696 v3 has significantly more cores with 18 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 E5-2696 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. For instance, the Ryzen 5 3500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.