Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 5675U

Compare Intel 10 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen PRO 5000 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
4845 points
0.46% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5321 points
7020 points
31% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4658 points
11% slightly better multitasking score
4182 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4614 points
14% slightly better heavy workload score
4046 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

152.03 points
31% slightly higher Blender score
115.74 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
26% slightly higher clock speed
2.30 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
360th of 1,089

Family

The product line

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Ryzen PRO 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2022 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

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No

Xeon E5-2666 v3 vs Ryzen 5 PRO 5675U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 PRO 5675U 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 5675U has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 PRO 5675U. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 PRO 5675U. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 PRO 5675U 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 5675U.

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.

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