AMD Ryzen 5 8500G vs Intel Xeon E5-2660 v4

Ryzen 5 8500G vs Xeon E5-2660 v4 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 8500G beats the Xeon E5-2660 v4 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2660 v4 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2660 v4 has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 8500G has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 8500G. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 8500G has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2660 v4. Also, the Ryzen 5 8500G has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 8500G CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2660 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 cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 8500G has significantly more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-2660 v4. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2660 v4 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 8500G.

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 8500G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.