Intel Xeon E5-1620 v2 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7520U

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 4 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

2286 points
3147 points
37% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3603 points
4989 points
38% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1895 points
2595 points
36% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1822 points
2494 points
36% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

49.31 points
64.47 points
30% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2380 points
3685 points
54% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

645 points
1171 points
81% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
Identical
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz
32% slightly higher clock speed
2.80 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz
4.3 GHz
10% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W
15 W
766% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
100% significantly more memory channels
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

665th of 1,089
518th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v2 Family
Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 August
2022 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
LPDDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
-

Xeon E5-1620 v2 vs Ryzen 5 7520U specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 7520U performs better than the Xeon E5-1620 v2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1620 v2 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-1620 v2 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 7520U.

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 Xeon E5-1620 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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