Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 5650GE

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 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

5940 points

11% slightly better overall score

5305 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5278 points

7718 points

46% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6174 points

35% slightly better multitasking score

4564 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6288 points

42% slightly better heavy workload score

4406 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

163.08 points

29% slightly higher Blender score

125.92 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6340 points

7066 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

996 points

1942 points

94% 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

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz

3.40 GHz

36% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.3 GHz

4.4 GHz

33% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

120 W

35 W

242% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

254th of 1,089

310th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Ryzen 5 PRO 5000 Series Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

2021 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2680 v3 vs Ryzen 5 PRO 5650GE specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650GE performs better than the Xeon E5-2680 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2680 v3 in all gaming tests too.

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 5650GE has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650GE. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650GE has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2680 v3. Also, the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650GE has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 PRO 5650GE 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.

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 E5-2680 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.