AMD Ryzen 5 5500 vs Intel Xeon E5-2687W v4

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 12 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2687W v4

Price

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$ 74.99

$ 9872.01 significantly less expensive

$ 9947.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5932 points

6031 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7972 points

31% slightly better gaming score

6083 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5268 points

5984 points

13% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5102 points

5939 points

16% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

141.88 points

185.69 points

30% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7653 points

7665 points

0.16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1872 points

71% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1092 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

19% slightly higher clock speed

3.00 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

20% slightly higher turbo speed

3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

146% significantly lower TDP

160 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

Identical

3 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

30 MiB

87% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

256th of 1,089

249th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Xeon E5 v4 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 April

2016 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-1600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 5 5500 vs Xeon E5-2687W v4 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2687W v4 is faster than the Ryzen 5 5500. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2687W v4 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5500 has 6 cores. 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 E5-2687W v4. Also, the Ryzen 5 5500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5500 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2687W v4 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Xeon E5-2687W v4 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.