Intel Xeon E5-2665 vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 5650GE

Compare Intel Xeon E5 Family 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 5000 Series Desktop 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

5548 points
4% slightly better overall score
5305 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4569 points
7718 points
68% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5916 points
29% slightly better multitasking score
4564 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6106 points
38% slightly better heavy workload score
4406 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

73.09 points
125.92 points
72% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2832 points
7066 points
149% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

452 points
1942 points
329% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
33% slightly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
33% slightly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz
3.40 GHz
41% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.1 GHz
4.4 GHz
41% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

115 W
35 W
228% 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

288th of 1,089
310th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 Family
Ryzen 5 PRO 5000 Series Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February
2021 June

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 E5-2665 vs Ryzen 5 PRO 5650GE specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2665 performs better than the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650GE. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650GE has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2665 has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650GE has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650GE. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650GE has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2665. Also, the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650GE has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 PRO 5650GE outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2665 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 E5-2665 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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