AMD Ryzen 5 3500X vs Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3

Compare AMD 6 core CPU vs Intel 10 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

4161 points

4823 points

15% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6597 points

23% slightly better gaming score

5321 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3390 points

4658 points

37% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3252 points

4614 points

41% slightly better heavy workload score

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3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3860 points

4806 points

24% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.91 points

152.03 points

76% significantly higher Blender score

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

24% slightly higher clock speed

2.90 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

20% slightly more L2 cache

2.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB

28% slightly more L3 cache

25 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

423rd of 1,089

363rd of 1,089

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 E5-2666 v3 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 beats the Ryzen 5 3500X in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3500X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 3500X has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3500X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 3500X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2666 v3. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3500X has slightly more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-2666 v3. The Ryzen 5 3500X also has slightly more L3 cache.

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. For instance, the Ryzen 5 3500X has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.