Intel Xeon E5-2637 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen PRO 5000 Series 8 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

4611 points

4640 points

0.63% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5571 points

6078 points

9% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4299 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

4227 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4207 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

4149 points

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Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4013 points

6258 points

55% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

871 points

1694 points

94% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4512 points

6151 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1142 points

1677 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

84% significantly higher clock speed

1.90 GHz

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

15 W

800% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

379th of 1,089

376th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Ryzen PRO 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

2021 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2637 v3 vs Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U 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 Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Xeon E5-2637 v3 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2637 v3. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2637 v3 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U 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.

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