Intel Xeon E5-2678 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5875U

Compare Intel 12 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen PRO 5000 Series 8 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

5654 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5325 points

7570 points

42% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5414 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

5051 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5392 points

9% slightly better heavy workload score

4922 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

164.10 points

22% slightly higher Blender score

133.69 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6701 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

5700 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1012 points

1590 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

120 W

15 W

700% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

303rd of 1,089

281st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen PRO 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 January

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 7 PRO 5875U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 PRO 5875U performs better than the Xeon E5-2678 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2678 v3 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2678 v3 has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 PRO 5875U that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 PRO 5875U. The Ryzen 7 PRO 5875U 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.