Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 7 5825U

Compare Intel 10 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 Mobile 8 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
4888 points
1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5321 points
6523 points
22% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4658 points
5% slightly better multitasking score
4398 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4614 points
7% slightly better heavy workload score
4293 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

152.03 points
15% slightly higher Blender score
131.31 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

10
25% slightly more cores
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

20
25% slightly more threads
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.90 GHz
45% significantly higher clock speed
2 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2.5 MiB
4 MiB
60% 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
357th of 1,089

Family

The product line

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Ryzen 7 Mobile

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 7 5825U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 beats the Ryzen 7 5825U in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5825U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has slightly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 5825U that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5825U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 5825U. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 5825U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon E5-2666 v3. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 7 5825U.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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