Intel Xeon E5-2660 vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3350G

Compare Intel Xeon E5 Family 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3000 Series Desktop 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
3871 points
19% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3840 points
5312 points
38% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3029 points
3476 points
14% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2968 points
3483 points
17% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

60.42 points
12% slightly higher Blender score
53.55 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
100% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
100% significantly more threads
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.2 GHz
3.8 GHz
72% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3 GHz
4 GHz
33% 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

4
100% significantly more memory channels
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

525th of 1,118
467th of 1,118

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 Family
Ryzen 5 PRO 3000 Series Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February
2020 July

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 E5-2660 vs Ryzen 5 PRO 3350G benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 PRO 3350G beats the Xeon E5-2660 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2660 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2660 has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 PRO 3350G has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 PRO 3350G. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 PRO 3350G has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2660. Also, the Ryzen 5 PRO 3350G has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 PRO 3350G 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.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2660 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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