Intel Xeon E5-2470 v2 vs AMD Ryzen 5 8500G

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 10 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 8000 Series 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
$ 155.73
$ 1808.97 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5777 points
4% slightly better overall score
5521 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4385 points
8044 points
83% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6307 points
32% slightly better multitasking score
4773 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6615 points
43% significantly better heavy workload score
4617 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

98.72 points
159.49 points
61% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3155 points
9444 points
199% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

477 points
2354 points
393% 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
3.55 GHz
47% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.2 GHz
5 GHz
56% significantly 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
291st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v2 Family
Ryzen 8000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 February
2024 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
DDR5

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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Xeon E5-2470 v2 vs Ryzen 5 8500G benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2470 v2 performs better than the Ryzen 5 8500G. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 8500G has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2470 v2 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 8500G. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2470 v2 has 10 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 8500G. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 8500G. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 8500G has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2470 v2. Also, the Ryzen 5 8500G has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 8500G 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.

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 E5-2470 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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