AMD Ryzen 5 3500U vs Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2

Price

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$ 1458.00

$ 105.77

$ 1352.23 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2357 points

4438 points

88% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3808 points

4819 points

26% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1930 points

4302 points

122% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1850 points

4265 points

130% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.23 points

100.42 points

169% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2457 points

3964 points

61% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

862 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

549 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2505 points

3854 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

875 points

55% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

563 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

150% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

150% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz

2.8 GHz

33% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

666% significantly lower TDP

115 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

396th 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

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 5 3500U vs Xeon E5-2680 v2 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2680 v2 is faster than the Ryzen 5 3500U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3500U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2680 v2 has significantly more cores with 10 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 Xeon E5-2680 v2 has a slightly higher clock speed than 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 E5-2680 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.