AMD Ryzen 5 3500X vs Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2

Compare AMD 6 core CPU vs Intel 12 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

5240 points

25% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6597 points

26% slightly better gaming score

5199 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3390 points

5238 points

54% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3252 points

5217 points

60% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.91 points

103.15 points

20% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5905 points

41% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

4163 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1536 points

207% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

499 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5889 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

4084 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1572 points

194% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

534 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

300% significantly more threads

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

423rd of 1,089

320th 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 E5-2696 v2 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 3500X performs better than the Xeon E5-2696 v2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2696 v2 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2696 v2 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 3500X has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3500X.

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.