AMD Ryzen 5 5500GT vs Intel Xeon E5-2660 v4

Compare AMD Ryzen 5000 Series 3 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 14 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2660 v4

Price

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$ 145.00

$ 6819.00 significantly less expensive

$ 6964.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5020 points

0.40% slightly better overall score

5000 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6843 points

40% slightly better gaming score

4860 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4448 points

5053 points

13% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4307 points

5066 points

17% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

141.41 points

201.57 points

42% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

366% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

366% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

79% significantly higher clock speed

2.00 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz

37% slightly higher turbo speed

3.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

61% significantly lower TDP

105 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

3.5 MiB

16% slightly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

35 MiB

118% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

345th of 1,089

348th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5000 Series

Xeon E5 v4 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 January

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 5500GT vs Xeon E5-2660 v4 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2660 v4 is faster than the Ryzen 5 5500GT. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5500GT has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2660 v4 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5500GT. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2660 v4 has 14 cores compared to 3 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5500GT. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500GT. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5500GT has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2660 v4. Also, the Ryzen 5 5500GT has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5500GT CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2660 v4 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Xeon E5-2660 v4 has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5500GT. The Xeon E5-2660 v4 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. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5500GT has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.