Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500GT

Compare Intel 10 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5000 Series 3 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

4823 points

5020 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5321 points

6843 points

28% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4658 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

4448 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4614 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

4307 points

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3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4806 points

5545 points

15% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

152.03 points

7% slightly higher Blender score

141.41 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

233% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

233% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.90 GHz

3.6 GHz

24% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2.5 MiB

3 MiB

20% slightly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

25 MiB

56% significantly more L3 cache

16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

363rd of 1,089

345th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Xeon E5-2666 v3 vs Ryzen 5 5500GT benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2666 v3 performs better than the Ryzen 5 5500GT. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5500GT has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5500GT. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has 10 cores compared to 3 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5500GT. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500GT. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5500GT has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2666 v3. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 5500GT has more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-2666 v3. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 5500GT.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.