AMD Ryzen 5 3500U vs Intel Xeon E5-1620 v2

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 1458.00
$ 30.00
$ 1428.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2357 points
3% slightly better overall score
2286 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3808 points
5% slightly better gaming score
3603 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1930 points
1% slightly better multitasking score
1895 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1850 points
1% slightly better heavy workload score
1822 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.23 points
49.31 points
32% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2457 points
6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
2305 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

862 points
36% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
633 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2505 points
5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
2380 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

875 points
35% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
645 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
Identical
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz
3.7 GHz
76% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz
3.9 GHz
5% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
766% significantly lower TDP
130 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
4
100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

650th of 1,089
665th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics
Xeon E5 v2 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January
2013 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

-
DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 5 3500U vs Xeon E5-1620 v2 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 3500U performs better than the Xeon E5-1620 v2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1620 v2 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1620 v2 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 3500U. Also, the Xeon E5-1620 v2 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3500U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1620 v2 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 3500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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