Intel Xeon E5-2667 v4 vs AMD Ryzen 5 8500G

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 8000 Series 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 925.00
$ 155.73
$ 769.27 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4938 points
5521 points
11% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6135 points
8044 points
31% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4537 points
4773 points
5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4433 points
4617 points
4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

138.59 points
159.49 points
15% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6682 points
9444 points
41% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1174 points
2354 points
100% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
33% slightly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
33% slightly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz
3.55 GHz
10% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz
5 GHz
38% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

135 W
65 W
107% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
100% significantly more memory channels
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

354th of 1,089
291st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v4 Family
Ryzen 8000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 February
2024 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600
DDR5

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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Xeon E5-2667 v4 vs Ryzen 5 8500G benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 8500G beats the Xeon E5-2667 v4 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2667 v4 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2667 v4 has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 8500G. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2667 v4 has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 8500G. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 8500G. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 8500G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2667 v4. Also, the Ryzen 5 8500G has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 8500G outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2667 v4 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 E5-2667 v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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