Intel Xeon E5-2665 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500X3D

Xeon E5-2665 vs Ryzen 5 5500X3D specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5500X3D is faster than the Xeon E5-2665. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2665 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2665 has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 5500X3D that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500X3D. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5500X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2665. Also, the Ryzen 5 5500X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5500X3D outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2665 thanks to a slightly 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 E5-2665 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.