Intel Xeon E5-2640 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7530U

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 6 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

5079 points
10% slightly better overall score
4604 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5205 points
6298 points
20% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5069 points
24% slightly better multitasking score
4083 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5131 points
29% slightly better heavy workload score
3956 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

113.01 points
8% slightly higher Blender score
104.53 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5384 points
5620 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1040 points
1634 points
57% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
33% slightly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
33% slightly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz
30% slightly higher clock speed
2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz
4.5 GHz
32% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

90 W
15 W
499% 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

341st of 1,089
380th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family
Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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Xeon E5-2640 v3 vs Ryzen 5 7530U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2640 v3 is faster than the Ryzen 5 7530U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7530U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2640 v3 has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 7530U that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7530U. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2640 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 7530U.

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 E5-2640 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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