Intel Xeon E5-1620 vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U

Compare Intel Xeon E5 Family 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen PRO 2000 Series 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

2735 points

0.89% slightly better overall score

2711 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4274 points

0.40% slightly better gaming score

4257 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2280 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

2242 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2192 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

2151 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

40.70 points

41.85 points

2% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2284 points

2399 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

592 points

944 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2244 points

2520 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

611 points

868 points

42% 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

3.6 GHz

79% significantly higher clock speed

2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

3.6 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

582nd of 1,089

587th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 Family

Ryzen PRO 2000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February

2019 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-1620 vs Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U performs better than the Xeon E5-1620. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1620 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1620 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U. Also, the Xeon E5-1620 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U 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.