Intel Xeon E5-2660 vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 2400G

Compare Intel Xeon E5 Family 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO Desktop with Radeon Vega Graphics 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

3233 points

7% slightly better overall score

3021 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3840 points

4632 points

20% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3029 points

19% slightly better multitasking score

2531 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2968 points

22% slightly better heavy workload score

2429 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

60.42 points

4% slightly higher Blender score

57.87 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.2 GHz

3.6 GHz

63% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3 GHz

3.9 GHz

30% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

65 W

46% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

507th of 1,089

535th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 Family

Ryzen 5 PRO Desktop with Radeon Vega Graphics

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February

2018 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2660 vs Ryzen 5 PRO 2400G specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2660 is faster than the Ryzen 5 PRO 2400G. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 PRO 2400G has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2660 has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 PRO 2400G that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 PRO 2400G. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 PRO 2400G has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2660. Also, the Ryzen 5 PRO 2400G has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 PRO 2400G outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2660 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 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.