AMD Ryzen 5 5500U vs Intel Xeon E5-2650 v4

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 12 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4357 points
4970 points
14% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6337 points
31% slightly better gaming score
4831 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3730 points
5013 points
34% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3577 points
5022 points
40% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

90.31 points
147.11 points
62% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4587 points
71% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
2679 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1288 points
132% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
554 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4533 points
47% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
3070 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1297 points
96% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
661 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
12
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
24
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz
2.2 GHz
4% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
37% slightly higher turbo speed
2.9 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
599% significantly lower TDP
105 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

405th of 1,089
353rd 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 E5-2650 v4 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2650 v4 is faster than the Ryzen 5 5500U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5500U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2650 v4 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5500U. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2650 v4 has 12 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5500U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2650 v4 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5500U. A Ryzen 5 5500U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2650 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 more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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