AMD Ryzen 5 3500X vs Intel Xeon E5-2667 v2

Compare AMD 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 130.00
$ 119.95 significantly less expensive
$ 249.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4161 points
4456 points
7% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6597 points
18% slightly better gaming score
5563 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3390 points
4086 points
20% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3252 points
3980 points
22% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.91 points
90.62 points
5% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5905 points
42% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
4156 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1536 points
134% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
655 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5889 points
47% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
3992 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1572 points
142% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
647 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
8
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

6
16
166% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
9% slightly higher clock speed
3.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz
2% slightly higher turbo speed
4 GHz

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

423rd of 1,089
392nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

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Xeon E5 v2 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 September
2013 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

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Yes

Ryzen 5 3500X vs Xeon E5-2667 v2 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2667 v2 performs better than the Ryzen 5 3500X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3500X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2667 v2 has slightly more cores with 8 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 E5-2667 v2. Also, the Ryzen 5 3500X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3500X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2667 v2 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the Ryzen 5 3500X has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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