Intel Xeon E5-2670 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7520U

Compare Intel Xeon E5 Family 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 4 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

2679 points
3147 points
17% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3763 points
4989 points
32% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2311 points
2595 points
12% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2218 points
2494 points
12% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

69.61 points
7% slightly higher Blender score
64.47 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3052 points
3685 points
20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

505 points
1171 points
131% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
100% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
100% significantly more threads
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz
2.80 GHz
7% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.3 GHz
4.3 GHz
30% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

115 W
15 W
666% 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

596th of 1,089
518th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 Family
Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February
2022 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
LPDDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
-

Xeon E5-2670 vs Ryzen 5 7520U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2670 performs better than the Ryzen 5 7520U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7520U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2670 has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 7520U has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7520U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 7520U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2670. Also, the Ryzen 5 7520U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7520U outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2670 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 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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