Intel Xeon E5-2637 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500GT

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5000 Series 3 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 229.95
$ 145.00
$ 84.95 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4611 points
5020 points
8% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5571 points
6843 points
22% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4299 points
4448 points
3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4207 points
4307 points
2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
33% slightly more cores
3

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
33% slightly more threads
6

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz
3.6 GHz
2% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz
4.4 GHz
18% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

135 W
65 W
107% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
100% significantly more memory channels
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

379th of 1,089
345th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family
Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August
2024 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
-

Xeon E5-2637 v3 vs Ryzen 5 5500GT comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 5500GT performs better than the Xeon E5-2637 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2637 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2637 v3 has slightly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5500GT has 3 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500GT. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5500GT has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2637 v3. Also, the Ryzen 5 5500GT has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5500GT outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2637 v3 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 E5-2637 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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