AMD Ryzen 5 5500 vs Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4

Price

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$ 74.99

$ 1202.91 significantly less expensive

$ 1277.90

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5932 points

8324 points

40% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7972 points

28% slightly better gaming score

6186 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5268 points

9116 points

73% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5102 points

9598 points

88% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

141.88 points

224.42 points

58% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7653 points

8264 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1872 points

76% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1062 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

166% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

166% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

38% slightly higher clock speed

2.60 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

16% slightly higher turbo speed

3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

123% significantly lower TDP

145 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

4 MiB

33% slightly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

40 MiB

150% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

256th of 1,089

134th 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 E5-2697A v4 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 beats the Ryzen 5 5500 in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has significantly more cores with 16 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 E5-2697A v4. Also, the Ryzen 5 5500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5500 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2697A v4 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 5500. The Xeon E5-2697A v4 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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