Intel Xeon E5-2420 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7520U

Compare Intel Xeon E5 Family 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 4 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

2140 points

3147 points

47% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2978 points

4989 points

67% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1875 points

2595 points

38% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1814 points

2494 points

37% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

36.28 points

64.47 points

77% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1814 points

3685 points

103% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

378 points

1171 points

209% 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

1.9 GHz

2.80 GHz

47% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

2.4 GHz

4.3 GHz

79% significantly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

15 W

533% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

49% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

697th of 1,089

518th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 Family

Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May

2022 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

LPDDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2420 vs Ryzen 5 7520U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2420 performs better than the Ryzen 5 7520U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7520U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2420 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 7520U that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7520U. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 7520U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2420.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2420 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.