Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 5 8500G

Compare Intel 10 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 8000 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

5521 points

14% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5321 points

8044 points

51% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4658 points

4773 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4614 points

4617 points

0.07% slightly better heavy workload score

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3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4806 points

5215 points

8% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

152.03 points

159.49 points

4% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

66% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.90 GHz

3.55 GHz

22% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2.5 MiB

6 MiB

139% significantly 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

291st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 8000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5

Xeon E5-2666 v3 vs Ryzen 5 8500G benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 is faster than the Ryzen 5 8500G. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 8500G has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 8500G that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 8500G. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 8500G has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2666 v3. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 8500G has significantly 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 8500G.

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 E5-2666 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.