Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 10 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

4438 points

4640 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4819 points

6078 points

26% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4302 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

4227 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4265 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

4149 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

100.42 points

119.67 points

19% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3964 points

6258 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

549 points

1694 points

208% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3854 points

6151 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

563 points

1677 points

197% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

25% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

25% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.8 GHz

47% significantly higher clock speed

1.90 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

4.4 GHz

22% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

115 W

15 W

666% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

396th of 1,089

376th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v2 Family

Ryzen PRO 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 August

2021 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2680 v2 vs Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U is faster than the Xeon E5-2680 v2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2680 v2 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2680 v2 has slightly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2680 v2 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2680 v2 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 E5-2680 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.