AMD Ryzen 5 5500U vs Intel Xeon E5-2640 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 E5-2640 v3

Price

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$ 844.78

$ 63.20

$ 781.58 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4357 points

5079 points

16% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6337 points

21% slightly better gaming score

5205 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3730 points

5069 points

35% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3577 points

5131 points

43% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

90.31 points

113.01 points

25% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4587 points

5241 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1288 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1004 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4533 points

5384 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1297 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1040 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

2.6 GHz

23% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

17% slightly higher turbo speed

3.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

499% significantly lower TDP

90 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

405th of 1,089

341st 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

DDR4-1600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 5 5500U vs Xeon E5-2640 v3 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2640 v3 is faster than the Ryzen 5 5500U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5500U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2640 v3 has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5500U has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500U. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2640 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5500U. A Ryzen 5 5500U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2640 v3 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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