AMD Ryzen 5 5500 vs Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2

Price

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$ 74.99

$ 114.96 significantly less expensive

$ 189.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5931 points

133% significantly better overall score

2544 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7969 points

95% significantly better gaming score

4070 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5267 points

151% significantly better multitasking score

2091 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5102 points

153% significantly better heavy workload score

2009 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

141.88 points

256% significantly higher Blender score

39.80 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

9% slightly higher clock speed

3.30 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

200% significantly more L2 cache

1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

8 MiB

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Ranking in the hardwareDB database

256th of 1,089

618th of 1,089

Family

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Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 5500 vs Xeon E3-1230 V2 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 5500 performs better than the Xeon E3-1230 V2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1230 V2 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 5500 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Xeon E3-1230 V2 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1230 V2. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1230 V2. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 5500 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon E3-1230 V2. The Ryzen 5 5500 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.