AMD Ryzen 5 3500U vs Intel Xeon E5-2420 v2

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2420 v2

Price

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$ 1458.00

$ 60.25

$ 1397.75 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2357 points

2495 points

5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3808 points

10% slightly better gaming score

3457 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1930 points

2187 points

13% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1850 points

2116 points

14% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.23 points

24% slightly higher Blender score

29.84 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2457 points

3177 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

862 points

66% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

517 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2505 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2144 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

875 points

98% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

440 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz

2.2 GHz

4% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

37% slightly higher turbo speed

2.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

433% significantly lower TDP

80 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

49% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

650th of 1,089

628th 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

2014 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 5 3500U vs Xeon E5-2420 v2 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2420 v2 is faster than the Ryzen 5 3500U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3500U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2420 v2 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 3500U has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3500U. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2420 v2 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 3500U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3500U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3500U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2420 v2 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.