AMD Ryzen 5 3500X vs Intel Xeon E5-2640 v4

Compare AMD 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2640 v4

Price

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$ 130.00

$ 39.90

$ 90.10 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4161 points

4409 points

5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6597 points

27% slightly better gaming score

5193 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3390 points

4156 points

22% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3252 points

4086 points

25% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.91 points

127.64 points

48% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5905 points

5966 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1536 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1033 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5889 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

5632 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1572 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1047 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

233% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

49% significantly higher clock speed

2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz

20% slightly higher turbo speed

3.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

38% slightly lower TDP

90 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

423rd of 1,089

399th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v4 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 September

2016 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 5 3500X vs Xeon E5-2640 v4 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2640 v4 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 E5-2640 v4 has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 3500X that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3500X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 3500X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2640 v4. Also, the Ryzen 5 3500X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3500X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2640 v4 CPU because of its slightly 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.