Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 12 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4000 Series Mobile 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

$ 223.79
$ 475.98 significantly less expensive
$ 699.77

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5940 points
43% significantly better overall score
4132 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5278 points
5983 points
13% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6174 points
73% significantly better multitasking score
3549 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6288 points
83% significantly better heavy workload score
3422 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

163.08 points
81% significantly higher Blender score
89.80 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6648 points
41% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
4683 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

941 points
1316 points
39% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6340 points
38% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
4568 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

996 points
1316 points
32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
100% significantly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
100% significantly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz
19% slightly higher clock speed
2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.3 GHz
4 GHz
21% slightly higher turbo speed

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

254th of 1,089
425th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family
Ryzen 5 PRO 4000 Series Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August
2020 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600
DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
-

Xeon E5-2680 v3 vs Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2680 v3 beats the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2680 v3 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2680 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U. The Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2680 v3 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 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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