AMD Ryzen 5 5500U vs Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 12 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 844.78
$ 459.32 significantly less expensive
$ 1304.10

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4357 points
5072 points
16% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6337 points
24% slightly better gaming score
5077 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3730 points
5065 points
35% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3577 points
5049 points
41% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

90.31 points
110.36 points
22% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4587 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
4379 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1288 points
128% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
564 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4533 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
4332 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1297 points
131% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
561 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
2.7 GHz
28% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
14% slightly higher turbo speed
3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
766% significantly lower TDP
130 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

405th of 1,089
343rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile
Xeon E5 v2 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December
2013 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR3-1066

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 E5-2697 v2 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5500U beats the Xeon E5-2697 v2 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2697 v2 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2697 v2 has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 5500U that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2697 v2 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5500U. A Ryzen 5 5500U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2697 v2 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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