Intel Xeon E5-2640 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500GT

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 8 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

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 63.20
$ 81.80 significantly less expensive
$ 145.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5079 points
1% slightly better overall score
5020 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5205 points
6843 points
31% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5069 points
13% slightly better multitasking score
4448 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5131 points
19% slightly better heavy workload score
4307 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

113.01 points
141.41 points
25% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
166% significantly more cores
3

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
166% significantly more threads
6

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
4.4 GHz
29% 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

4
100% significantly more memory channels
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

341st 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 E5-2640 v3 vs Ryzen 5 5500GT specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2640 v3 performs better than the Ryzen 5 5500GT. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5500GT has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2640 v3 has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5500GT has 3 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500GT. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5500GT has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2640 v3. Also, the Ryzen 5 5500GT has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5500GT 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.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2640 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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