Intel Xeon E5-1620 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Compare Intel Xeon E5 Family 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 153.08
$ 74.99
$ 78.09 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2735 points
5932 points
116% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4274 points
7972 points
86% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2280 points
5268 points
131% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2192 points
5102 points
132% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

40.70 points
141.88 points
248% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2284 points
7589 points
232% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

592 points
1833 points
209% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2244 points
7653 points
241% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

611 points
1872 points
206% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
12
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
Identical
3.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz
4.2 GHz
10% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W
65 W
100% 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

582nd of 1,089
256th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 Family
Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February
2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
-

Xeon E5-1620 vs Ryzen 5 5500 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5500 is faster than the Xeon E5-1620. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1620 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 5500 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Xeon E5-1620 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-1620. In terms of clock speed, the Xeon E5-1620 and Ryzen 5 5500 are identical in this regard. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5500 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-1620 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1620 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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