AMD Ryzen 5 5500 vs Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 10 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

5931 points

22% slightly better overall score

4823 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7969 points

49% significantly better gaming score

5321 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5267 points

13% slightly better multitasking score

4658 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5102 points

10% slightly better heavy workload score

4614 points

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3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5451 points

13% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

4806 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

141.88 points

152.03 points

7% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

66% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

24% slightly higher clock speed

2.90 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

20% slightly more L2 cache

2.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

25 MiB

56% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

256th of 1,089

363rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

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 E5-2666 v3 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5500 beats the Xeon E5-2666 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2666 v3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5500. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has 10 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5500. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5500 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2666 v3. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 5500 has more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-2666 v3. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 5500.

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.