Intel Xeon E5-2420 v2 vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 6 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

2495 points

4208 points

68% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3457 points

6127 points

77% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2187 points

3638 points

66% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2116 points

3518 points

66% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

29.84 points

94.21 points

215% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2144 points

5599 points

161% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

440 points

1594 points

262% 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

2.2 GHz

2.30 GHz

4% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

2.7 GHz

4.2 GHz

55% significantly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

80 W

15 W

433% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

628th of 1,089

420th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v2 Family

Ryzen 5 PRO 5000 Series Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 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 E5-2420 v2 vs Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2420 v2 is faster 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.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2420 v2. Also, the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2420 v2 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 E5-2420 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.