Intel Xeon E5-2660 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 10 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

3996 points

4208 points

5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4213 points

6127 points

45% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3900 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

3638 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3849 points

9% slightly better heavy workload score

3518 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

129.03 points

36% slightly higher Blender score

94.21 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5959 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

5599 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

985 points

1594 points

61% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

66% significantly more threads

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

3.3 GHz

4.2 GHz

27% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W

15 W

599% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

436th of 1,089

420th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Ryzen 5 PRO 5000 Series Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

2021 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2660 v3 vs Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2660 v3 performs better than the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2660 v3 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2660 v3 has 10 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2660 v3 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 E5-2660 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.