Intel Xeon E5-2678 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 5650GE

Compare Intel 12 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 5000 Series Desktop 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

1% slightly better overall score

5305 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5325 points

7718 points

44% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5414 points

18% slightly better multitasking score

4564 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5392 points

22% slightly better heavy workload score

4406 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

164.10 points

30% slightly higher Blender score

125.92 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6701 points

7066 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1012 points

1942 points

91% 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

35 W

242% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

303rd of 1,089

310th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 PRO 5000 Series Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Xeon E5-2678 v3 vs Ryzen 5 PRO 5650GE benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2678 v3 is faster than the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650GE. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650GE has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2678 v3 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650GE. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2678 v3 has 12 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650GE. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650GE. The Ryzen 5 PRO 5650GE 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.