AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650GE vs Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4000 Series Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 10 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

5362 points

11% slightly better overall score

4823 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7477 points

40% slightly better gaming score

5321 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4673 points

0.32% slightly better multitasking score

4658 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4514 points

4614 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

98.95 points

152.03 points

53% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

66% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.30 GHz

13% slightly higher clock speed

2.90 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

20% slightly more L2 cache

2.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

25 MiB

212% significantly more L3 cache

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Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

306th of 1,089

363rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 PRO 4000 Series Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Ryzen 5 PRO 4650GE vs Xeon E5-2666 v3 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650GE performs better than the Xeon E5-2666 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2666 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650GE has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650GE. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650GE has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2666 v3. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650GE has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon E5-2666 v3. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650GE.

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 PRO 4650GE has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.