Intel Xeon E5-2630 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

2586 points

3147 points

21% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3592 points

4989 points

38% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2259 points

2595 points

14% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2183 points

2494 points

14% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

38.04 points

64.47 points

69% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2380 points

3685 points

54% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

448 points

1171 points

161% 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

2.3 GHz

2.80 GHz

21% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

2.8 GHz

4.3 GHz

53% 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

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

610th 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 February

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 E5-2630 vs Ryzen 5 7520U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 7520U performs better than the Xeon E5-2630. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2630 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2630 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 7520U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2630. Also, the Ryzen 5 7520U has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7520U outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2630 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 E5-2630 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.