AMD Ryzen 5 3500U vs Intel Xeon E5-2640 v4

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 1458.00
$ 39.90
$ 1418.10 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2357 points
4409 points
87% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3808 points
5193 points
36% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1930 points
4156 points
115% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1850 points
4086 points
120% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.23 points
127.64 points
242% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2457 points
5966 points
142% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

862 points
1033 points
19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2505 points
5632 points
124% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

875 points
1047 points
19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
10
150% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
20
150% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz
2.4 GHz
14% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz
8% slightly higher turbo speed
3.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
499% significantly lower TDP
90 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
399th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics
Xeon E5 v4 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January
2016 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

-
DDR4-1600

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 E5-2640 v4 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2640 v4 is faster than the Ryzen 5 3500U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3500U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2640 v4 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 3500U. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2640 v4 has 10 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 5 3500U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3500U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2640 v4 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 E5-2640 v4 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.

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