AMD Ryzen 7 4800U vs Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Mobile 8 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

5130 points

6% slightly better overall score

4823 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6861 points

28% slightly better gaming score

5321 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4572 points

4658 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4437 points

4614 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

122.31 points

152.03 points

24% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

25% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

25% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.8 GHz

2.90 GHz

61% significantly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

60% significantly more L2 cache

2.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

25 MiB

212% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

334th of 1,089

363rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Ryzen 7 4800U vs Xeon E5-2666 v3 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 4800U 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has slightly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 4800U that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 4800U. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 4800U. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 4800U has significantly 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 7 4800U.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 4800U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.