AMD Ryzen 5 5500U vs Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core CPU vs Intel 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
4566 points
4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6337 points
45% significantly better gaming score
4356 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3730 points
4649 points
24% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3577 points
4685 points
30% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

90.31 points
136.02 points
50% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4587 points
98% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
2308 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1288 points
104% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
629 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

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
700% significantly lower TDP
120 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

415th of 1,103
394th of 1,103

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
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Ryzen 5 5500U vs Xeon E5-2676 v3 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 5500U performs better than the Xeon E5-2676 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2676 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2676 v3 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5500U has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500U. A Ryzen 5 5500U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2676 v3 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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