Intel Xeon E5-1620 v2 vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 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

2650 points

15% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3603 points

4215 points

16% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1895 points

2190 points

15% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1822 points

2104 points

15% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

49.31 points

2% slightly higher Blender score

47.87 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2305 points

2704 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

633 points

923 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2380 points

2612 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

645 points

903 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

76% significantly higher clock speed

2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

3.7 GHz

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

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

665th of 1,089

602nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v2 Family

Ryzen 5 PRO Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 August

2019 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-1620 v2 vs Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U is faster 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. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1620 v2 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U. Also, the Xeon E5-1620 v2 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U outputs less heat than Xeon E5-1620 v2 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.