Intel Xeon E5-2670 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 12 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 2025.40
$ 74.99
$ 1950.41 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5014 points
5931 points
18% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5009 points
7969 points
59% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5003 points
5267 points
5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4989 points
5102 points
2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

145.84 points
2% slightly higher Blender score
141.88 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5840 points
7589 points
29% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

883 points
1833 points
107% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5958 points
7653 points
28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

941 points
1872 points
98% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
100% significantly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
100% significantly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz
3.6 GHz
56% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.1 GHz
4.2 GHz
35% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

120 W
65 W
84% 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

346th of 1,089
256th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family
Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August
2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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Xeon E5-2670 v3 vs Ryzen 5 5500 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 5500 performs better than the Xeon E5-2670 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2670 v3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2670 v3 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5500. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2670 v3 has 12 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5500. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5500 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2670 v3. Also, the Ryzen 5 5500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5500 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2670 v3 thanks to a significantly 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 E5-2670 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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