Intel Xeon E5-2640 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 5 8500G

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 8000 Series 6 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
$ 92.53 significantly less expensive
$ 155.73

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5079 points
5521 points
8% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5205 points
8044 points
54% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5069 points
6% slightly better multitasking score
4773 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5131 points
11% slightly better heavy workload score
4617 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

113.01 points
159.49 points
41% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5384 points
9444 points
75% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1040 points
2354 points
126% 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
3.55 GHz
36% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz
5 GHz
47% significantly 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
291st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family
Ryzen 8000 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
DDR5

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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Xeon E5-2640 v3 vs Ryzen 5 8500G specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2640 v3 beats the Ryzen 5 8500G in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 8500G has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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 8500G. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2640 v3 has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 8500G. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 8500G. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 8500G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2640 v3. Also, the Ryzen 5 8500G has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 8500G 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.

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