Intel Xeon E5-2470 v2 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 10 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 1964.70
$ 74.99
$ 1889.71 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5777 points
5931 points
2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4385 points
7969 points
81% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6307 points
19% slightly better multitasking score
5267 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6615 points
29% slightly better heavy workload score
5102 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

98.72 points
141.88 points
43% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5077 points
7589 points
49% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

570 points
1833 points
221% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3155 points
7653 points
142% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

477 points
1872 points
292% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

10
66% significantly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

20
66% significantly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz
3.6 GHz
49% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.2 GHz
4.2 GHz
31% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
65 W
46% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

3
49% significantly more memory channels
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

270th of 1,089
256th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v2 Family
Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 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 E5-2470 v2 vs Ryzen 5 5500 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5500 beats the Xeon E5-2470 v2 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2470 v2 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2470 v2 has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 5500 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5500 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2470 v2. Also, the Ryzen 5 5500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5500 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2470 v2 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 E5-2470 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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