Intel Xeon E5-2640 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 5 4500

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 8 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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AMD Ryzen 5 4500

Price

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$ 63.20

$ 5.17 slightly less expensive

$ 68.37

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5079 points

5312 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5205 points

7287 points

40% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5069 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

4672 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5131 points

13% slightly better heavy workload score

4523 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

113.01 points

124.29 points

9% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5384 points

6235 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1040 points

1560 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz

3.6 GHz

38% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz

4.1 GHz

20% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

90 W

65 W

38% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

341st of 1,089

309th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

2022 April

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 E5-2640 v3 vs Ryzen 5 4500 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 4500 performs better than the Xeon E5-2640 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2640 v3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2640 v3 has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 4500. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2640 v3 has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 4500. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 4500. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 4500 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2640 v3. Also, the Ryzen 5 4500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 4500 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2640 v3 thanks to a slightly 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 E5-2640 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.