AMD Ryzen 5 3500X vs Intel Xeon X5680

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

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Intel Xeon X5680

Price

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$ 130.00

$ 17.98 slightly less expensive

$ 147.98

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4161 points

4570 points

9% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6597 points

46% significantly better gaming score

4503 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3390 points

4578 points

35% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3252 points

4568 points

40% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.91 points

52% significantly higher Blender score

56.43 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5905 points

128% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2584 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1536 points

187% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

535 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5889 points

137% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2476 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1572 points

195% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

532 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

8% slightly higher clock speed

3.33 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz

13% slightly higher turbo speed

3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

100% significantly lower TDP

130 W

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

14528% significantly more L2 cache

0.02 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB

3100% significantly more L3 cache

1 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

423rd of 1,089

383rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 September

2010 February

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 X5680 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon X5680 is faster than the Ryzen 5 3500X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3500X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Xeon X5680 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 3500X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon X5680. Also, the Ryzen 5 3500X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3500X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon X5680 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3500X has significantly more L2 cache than the Xeon X5680. The Ryzen 5 3500X also has significantly 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.