AMD Ryzen 5 5500U vs Intel Xeon E5-1660 v3

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-1660 v3

Price

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$ 844.78

$ 199.26

$ 645.52 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4357 points

4392 points

0.80% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6337 points

17% slightly better gaming score

5377 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3730 points

4064 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3577 points

3979 points

11% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

90.31 points

148.95 points

64% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4587 points

8091 points

76% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1288 points

1373 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4533 points

7100 points

56% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1297 points

0.46% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1291 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz

3 GHz

42% much higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

14% slightly higher turbo speed

3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

833% significantly lower TDP

140 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

405th of 1,089

401st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December

2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

DDR4-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 5 5500U vs Xeon E5-1660 v3 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5500U is faster than the Xeon E5-1660 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1660 v3 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-1660 v3 has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 5500U that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500U. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-1660 v3 has a much higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 5500U. A Ryzen 5 5500U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1660 v3 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 5500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.