Intel Xeon E5-2660 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500H

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 10 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5000 Series 4 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

3996 points

4% slightly better overall score

3827 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4213 points

6332 points

50% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3900 points

26% slightly better multitasking score

3095 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3849 points

29% slightly better heavy workload score

2970 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

129.03 points

65% significantly higher Blender score

78.11 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5959 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

4230 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

985 points

1535 points

55% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

150% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

150% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz

3.30 GHz

26% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.3 GHz

4.2 GHz

27% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W

45 W

133% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

436th of 1,089

450th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

2023 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

DDR4-3200

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2660 v3 vs Ryzen 5 5500H specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 5500H performs better than the Xeon E5-2660 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2660 v3 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2660 v3 has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 5500H that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500H. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5500H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2660 v3. Also, the Ryzen 5 5500H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5500H outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2660 v3 thanks to a significantly 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 E5-2660 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.