Intel Xeon E5-1660 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7530U

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 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

4392 points

4604 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5377 points

6298 points

17% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4064 points

4083 points

0.47% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3979 points

0.58% slightly better heavy workload score

3956 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

148.95 points

42% slightly higher Blender score

104.53 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7100 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

5620 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1291 points

1634 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz

49% significantly higher clock speed

2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz

4.5 GHz

28% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

140 W

15 W

833% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

401st of 1,089

380th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1333

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-1660 v3 vs Ryzen 5 7530U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 7530U performs better than the Xeon E5-1660 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1660 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-1660 v3 has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 7530U has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7530U. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-1660 v3 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 7530U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7530U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7530U outputs less heat than Xeon E5-1660 v3 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 E5-1660 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.