Intel Xeon E5-2667 v2 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500X3D

Xeon E5-2667 v2 vs Ryzen 5 5500X3D specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2667 v2 beats the Ryzen 5 5500X3D in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5500X3D has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2667 v2 has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5500X3D has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500X3D. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2667 v2 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5500X3D. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5500X3D outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2667 v2 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 E5-2667 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.