Intel Xeon E5-2650 v2 vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 5000 Series Mobile 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

3764 points
4208 points
11% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4552 points
6127 points
34% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3492 points
3638 points
4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3415 points
3518 points
3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

71.99 points
94.21 points
30% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3167 points
5599 points
76% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

518 points
1594 points
207% 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
12% slightly higher clock speed
2.30 GHz

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

95 W
15 W
533% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

454th of 1,089
420th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v2 Family
Ryzen 5 PRO 5000 Series Mobile

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

-
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
-

Xeon E5-2650 v2 vs Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2650 v2 is faster than the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2650 v2 has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2650 v2 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2650 v2 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 E5-2650 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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