Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7535U

Compare Intel 10 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7000 Series 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

4823 points
5343 points
10% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5321 points
7732 points
45% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4658 points
1% slightly better multitasking score
4604 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4614 points
3% slightly better heavy workload score
4446 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

152.03 points
37% slightly higher Blender score
110.60 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

10
66% significantly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

20
66% significantly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.90 GHz
Identical
2.90 GHz

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
307th of 1,089

Family

The product line

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Ryzen 7000 Series

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

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No

Xeon E5-2666 v3 vs Ryzen 5 7535U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 7535U beats the Xeon E5-2666 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2666 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 7535U has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7535U. Both the Xeon E5-2666 v3 and Ryzen 5 7535U have the same clock speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7535U has slightly 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 7535U.

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.

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