AMD Ryzen 5 5500U vs Intel Xeon E5-2640 v4

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 844.78
$ 39.90
$ 804.88 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4357 points
4409 points
1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6337 points
22% slightly better gaming score
5193 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3730 points
4156 points
11% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3577 points
4086 points
14% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

90.31 points
127.64 points
41% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4587 points
5966 points
30% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1288 points
24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1033 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4533 points
5632 points
24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1297 points
23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1047 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
10
66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
20
66% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz
2.4 GHz
14% 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
399th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile
Xeon E5 v4 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December
2016 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR4-1600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 5 5500U vs Xeon E5-2640 v4 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 5500U performs better than the Xeon E5-2640 v4. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2640 v4 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2640 v4 has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5500U has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2640 v4 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5500U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5500U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5500U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2640 v4 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.

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