Intel Xeon E5-2650 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 10 core CPU vs AMD 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

4924 points
4985 points
1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4566 points
6530 points
43% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5084 points
13% slightly better multitasking score
4496 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5215 points
19% slightly better heavy workload score
4354 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

112.68 points
29% slightly higher Blender score
87.35 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

10
66% significantly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

20
66% significantly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz
4% slightly higher clock speed
2.20 GHz

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

355th of 1,089
350th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family
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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
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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Xeon E5-2650 v3 vs Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition performs better than the Xeon E5-2650 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2650 v3 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2650 v3 has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2650 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition.

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 E5-2650 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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