Intel Xeon E5-2643 v2 vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen PRO 5000 Series 8 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

4657 points

0.37% slightly better overall score

4640 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5043 points

6078 points

20% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4542 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

4227 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4510 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

4149 points

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Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4201 points

6258 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

702 points

1694 points

141% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3212 points

6151 points

91% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

642 points

1677 points

161% 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

3.5 GHz

84% significantly higher clock speed

1.90 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

4.4 GHz

15% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W

15 W

766% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

373rd of 1,089

376th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v2 Family

Ryzen PRO 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 August

2021 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2643 v2 vs Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2643 v2 is faster than the Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Xeon E5-2643 v2 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2643 v2. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2643 v2 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2643 v2 thanks to a significantly 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 E5-2643 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.