Intel Xeon E5-1620 vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U

Compare Intel Xeon E5 Family 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 5000 Series Mobile 6 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

4208 points

53% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4274 points

6127 points

43% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2280 points

3638 points

59% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2192 points

3518 points

60% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

40.70 points

94.21 points

131% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2244 points

5599 points

149% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

611 points

1594 points

160% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

56% significantly higher clock speed

2.30 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

15 W

766% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

582nd of 1,089

420th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 Family

Ryzen 5 PRO 5000 Series Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February

2021 March

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 5650U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-1620 performs better than the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-1620 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U 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.