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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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

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

3.8 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

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

507th of 1,089

447th of 1,089

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

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.

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.