AMD Ryzen 7 5700G vs Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 5000 G-Series Desktop 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

7430 points

54% significantly better overall score

4823 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8722 points

63% significantly better gaming score

5321 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7004 points

50% significantly better multitasking score

4658 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6877 points

49% significantly better heavy workload score

4614 points

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3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6694 points

39% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

4806 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

196.94 points

29% slightly higher Blender score

152.03 points

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

3.8 GHz

30% slightly higher clock speed

2.90 GHz

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

16 MiB

25 MiB

56% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

168th of 1,089

363rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 5000 G-Series Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 7 5700G vs Xeon E5-2666 v3 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 5700G is faster 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 5700G that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5700G. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5700G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2666 v3. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 7 5700G has more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-2666 v3. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 7 5700G.

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 7 5700G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.