Intel Xeon E5-2678 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 5 8500G

Compare Intel 12 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5409 points

5521 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5325 points

8044 points

51% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5414 points

13% slightly better multitasking score

4773 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5392 points

16% slightly better heavy workload score

4617 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7650 points

46% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

5215 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

164.10 points

2% slightly higher Blender score

159.49 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6701 points

9444 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1012 points

2354 points

132% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

120 W

65 W

84% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

303rd of 1,089

291st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 8000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5

Xeon E5-2678 v3 vs Ryzen 5 8500G benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2678 v3 is faster than the Ryzen 5 8500G. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 8500G has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2678 v3 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 8500G has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 8500G. The Ryzen 5 8500G outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2678 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 E5-2678 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.