Intel Xeon E5-1650 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Compare Intel Xeon E5 Family 6 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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AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Price

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$ 66.00

$ 8.99 slightly less expensive

$ 74.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3446 points

5931 points

72% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4699 points

7969 points

69% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3046 points

5267 points

72% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2950 points

5102 points

72% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

55.26 points

141.88 points

156% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3081 points

7589 points

146% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

640 points

1833 points

186% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2889 points

7653 points

164% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

595 points

1872 points

214% significantly 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

3.2 GHz

3.6 GHz

12% slightly higher clock speed

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

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

490th 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 E5-1650 vs Ryzen 5 5500 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5500 beats the Xeon E5-1650 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1650 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5500 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-1650. Also, the Ryzen 5 5500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5500 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-1650 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 E5-1650 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.