AMD Ryzen 5 3500U vs Intel Xeon Gold 6226R

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs Intel 2nd Generation Xeon Scalable 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon Gold 6226R

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$ 1458.00

$ 797.00

$ 661.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2357 points

2515 points

6% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3808 points

4643 points

21% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1930 points

0.52% slightly better multitasking score

1920 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1850 points

0.33% slightly better heavy workload score

1844 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.23 points

260.30 points

599% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2505 points

9626 points

284% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

875 points

1351 points

54% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

300% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

300% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz

2.9 GHz

38% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

3.9 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

900% significantly lower TDP

150 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

200% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

650th of 1,089

625th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

2nd Generation Xeon Scalable

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

2020 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2933

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 5 3500U vs Xeon Gold 6226R comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon Gold 6226R beats the Ryzen 5 3500U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3500U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon Gold 6226R has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 3500U. Indeed, the Xeon Gold 6226R has 16 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 5 3500U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3500U. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon Gold 6226R has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 3500U. Also, the Xeon Gold 6226R has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3500U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon Gold 6226R CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.