Intel Xeon E5-2673 v4 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Compare Intel 20 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

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 89.00
$ 74.99
$ 14.01 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6502 points
9% slightly better overall score
5930 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5216 points
7967 points
52% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6982 points
32% slightly better multitasking score
5266 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7212 points
41% slightly better heavy workload score
5101 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

243.49 points
71% significantly higher Blender score
141.88 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10534 points
38% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
7589 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

731 points
1833 points
150% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7218 points
7653 points
6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

952 points
1872 points
96% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

20
233% significantly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

40
233% significantly more threads
12

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

135 W
65 W
107% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

219th of 1,089
256th of 1,089

Family

The product line

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Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

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Yes

Xeon E5-2673 v4 vs Ryzen 5 5500 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2673 v4 beats the Ryzen 5 5500 in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2673 v4 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5500. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2673 v4 has 20 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5500. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500. The Ryzen 5 5500 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2673 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 E5-2673 v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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