Intel Xeon E5-2640 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500

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 5500

Price

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$ 63.20

$ 11.79 slightly less expensive

$ 74.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5079 points

5930 points

16% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5205 points

7967 points

53% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5069 points

5266 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5131 points

0.59% slightly better heavy workload score

5101 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

113.01 points

141.88 points

25% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5241 points

7589 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1004 points

1833 points

82% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5384 points

7653 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1040 points

1872 points

79% 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

4.2 GHz

23% 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

256th 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 5500 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5500 beats the Xeon E5-2640 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2640 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2640 v3 has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5500 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2640 v3. Also, the Ryzen 5 5500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5500 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.