AMD Ryzen 5 3500U vs Intel Xeon E5-2650

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 Family 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2650

Price

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$ 1458.00

$ 103.11

$ 1354.89 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2357 points

2944 points

24% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3808 points

9% slightly better gaming score

3493 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1930 points

2761 points

43% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1850 points

2710 points

46% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.23 points

58.36 points

56% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2457 points

4002 points

62% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

862 points

67% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

515 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2505 points

2564 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

875 points

117% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

403 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz

5% slightly higher clock speed

2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

32% slightly higher turbo speed

2.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

533% significantly lower TDP

95 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

650th of 1,089

547th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

2012 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 E5-2650 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2650 performs better than the Ryzen 5 3500U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3500U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2650 has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 3500U that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3500U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 3500U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2650. Also, the Ryzen 5 3500U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3500U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2650 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.