Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 5650GE

Compare Intel 10 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

4823 points

5305 points

9% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5321 points

7718 points

45% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4658 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

4564 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4614 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

4406 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

152.03 points

20% slightly higher Blender score

125.92 points

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

3.40 GHz

17% 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

310th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 PRO 5000 Series Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Xeon E5-2666 v3 vs Ryzen 5 PRO 5650GE comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650GE 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 PRO 5650GE has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650GE. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650GE has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2666 v3. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650GE 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 PRO 5650GE.

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.