Intel Xeon E5-2660 vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U

Compare Intel Xeon E5 Family 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 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

3233 points

3% slightly better overall score

3137 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3840 points

4530 points

17% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3029 points

11% slightly better multitasking score

2722 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2968 points

12% slightly better heavy workload score

2633 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

60.42 points

86.82 points

43% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2763 points

5816 points

110% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

457 points

1691 points

270% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.2 GHz

10% slightly higher clock speed

2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3 GHz

4.5 GHz

49% significantly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

15 W

533% 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

519th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 Family

Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February

2023 January

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 7530U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2660 performs better than the Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2660 has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2660 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U 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.