AMD Ryzen 5 3500X vs Intel Xeon E5-1680 v2

Compare AMD 6 core CPU vs Intel 8 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

4187 points

4559 points

8% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6634 points

16% slightly better gaming score

5695 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3411 points

4175 points

22% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3273 points

4067 points

24% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.91 points

90.67 points

5% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5905 points

51% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

3887 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1536 points

145% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

625 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5889 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

4201 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1572 points

127% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

690 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

166% significantly more threads

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

100% significantly lower TDP

130 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

436th of 1,119

401st of 1,119

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 September

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 3500X vs Xeon E5-1680 v2 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-1680 v2 beats the Ryzen 5 3500X in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3500X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-1680 v2 has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 3500X that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3500X. A Ryzen 5 3500X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1680 v2 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. For instance, the Ryzen 5 3500X has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.