AMD Ryzen 5 5500U vs Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 12 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3

Price

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$ 844.78

$ 223.79

$ 620.99 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4357 points

5940 points

36% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6337 points

20% slightly better gaming score

5278 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3730 points

6174 points

65% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3577 points

6288 points

75% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

90.31 points

163.08 points

80% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4587 points

6648 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1288 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

941 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4533 points

6340 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1297 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

996 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz

2.5 GHz

19% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

21% slightly higher turbo speed

3.3 GHz

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

405th of 1,089

254th 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 E5-2680 v3 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2680 v3 performs better 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 E5-2680 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2680 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 5500U. A Ryzen 5 5500U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2680 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.