Intel Xeon E5-1660 v4 vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen PRO 5000 Series 8 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

4751 points

2% slightly better overall score

4640 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5819 points

6078 points

4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4397 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

4227 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4304 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

4149 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

132.21 points

10% slightly higher Blender score

119.67 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6895 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

6258 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

900 points

1694 points

88% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6435 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

6151 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1161 points

1677 points

44% 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

68% significantly higher clock speed

1.90 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

4.4 GHz

15% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

140 W

15 W

833% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

369th of 1,089

376th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v4 Family

Ryzen PRO 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 May

2021 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-1660 v4 vs Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-1660 v4 is faster than the Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1660 v4 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U outputs less heat than Xeon E5-1660 v4 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 v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.