AMD Ryzen 5 3500X vs Intel Xeon E5-2689

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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Intel Xeon E5-2689

Price

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$ 130.00

$ 109.95

$ 20.05 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4161 points

4209 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6597 points

35% slightly better gaming score

4875 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3390 points

3976 points

17% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3252 points

3900 points

19% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.91 points

8% slightly higher Blender score

78.82 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

76% significantly lower TDP

115 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

423rd of 1,089

418th 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 E5-2689 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2689 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 E5-2689 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 E5-2689 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.