Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U

Compare Intel 10 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen PRO 5000 Series 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

3% slightly better overall score

4640 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5321 points

6078 points

14% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4658 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

4227 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4614 points

11% slightly better heavy workload score

4149 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

152.03 points

27% slightly higher Blender score

119.67 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

25% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

25% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.90 GHz

52% significantly higher clock speed

1.90 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

376th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen PRO 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 March

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 7 PRO 5850U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 is faster than the Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U 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 7 PRO 5850U.

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.