Intel Xeon E5-2670 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500GT

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 12 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5000 Series 3 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 2025.40
$ 145.00
$ 1880.40 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5014 points
5020 points
0.12% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5009 points
6843 points
36% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5003 points
12% slightly better multitasking score
4448 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4989 points
15% slightly better heavy workload score
4307 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

145.84 points
3% slightly higher Blender score
141.41 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
300% significantly more cores
3

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
300% significantly more threads
6

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
4.4 GHz
41% 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
345th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family
Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August
2024 January

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
-

Xeon E5-2670 v3 vs Ryzen 5 5500GT comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2670 v3 performs better than the Ryzen 5 5500GT. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5500GT has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2670 v3 has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 5500GT that has 3 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500GT. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5500GT has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2670 v3. Also, the Ryzen 5 5500GT has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5500GT 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.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2670 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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