AMD Ryzen 5 3500U vs Intel Xeon E5-2678 v3

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs Intel 12 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

2357 points

5409 points

129% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3808 points

5325 points

39% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1930 points

5414 points

180% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1850 points

5392 points

191% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.23 points

164.10 points

340% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2457 points

6377 points

159% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

862 points

967 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2505 points

6701 points

167% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

875 points

1012 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

200% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

200% significantly more threads

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

700% significantly lower TDP

120 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

650th of 1,089

303rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

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Ryzen 5 3500U vs Xeon E5-2678 v3 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2678 v3 performs better than the Ryzen 5 3500U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3500U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2678 v3 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 3500U has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3500U. A Ryzen 5 3500U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2678 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. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.