AMD Ryzen 5 5500U vs Intel Xeon W-2125

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon W 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon W-2125

Price

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$ 844.78

$ 429.95

$ 414.83 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4357 points

42% slightly better overall score

3067 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6337 points

11% slightly better gaming score

5663 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3730 points

59% significantly better multitasking score

2337 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3577 points

59% significantly better heavy workload score

2241 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

90.31 points

23% slightly higher Blender score

72.99 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4587 points

4853 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1288 points

1323 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4533 points

4933 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1297 points

1360 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz

4 GHz

90% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

4.5 GHz

12% slightly higher turbo speed

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

532nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile

Xeon W

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December

2017 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 W-2125 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5500U is faster than the Xeon W-2125. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon W-2125 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 5500U has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Xeon W-2125 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon W-2125. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon W-2125 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 5500U. A Ryzen 5 5500U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon W-2125 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.