AMD Ryzen 5 3500X vs Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2

Compare AMD 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 12 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2

Price

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$ 130.00

$ 1174.10 significantly less expensive

$ 1304.10

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4161 points

5072 points

21% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6597 points

29% slightly better gaming score

5077 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3390 points

5065 points

49% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3252 points

5049 points

55% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.91 points

110.36 points

28% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5905 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

4379 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1536 points

172% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

564 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5889 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

4332 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1572 points

180% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

561 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

300% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

33% slightly higher clock speed

2.7 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz

17% slightly higher turbo speed

3.5 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

343rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

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

DDR3-1066

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 E5-2697 v2 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 3500X beats the Xeon E5-2697 v2 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2697 v2 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2697 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. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 3500X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2697 v2. Also, the Ryzen 5 3500X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3500X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2697 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.