Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5875U

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 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

5940 points

5% slightly better overall score

5654 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5278 points

7570 points

43% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6174 points

22% slightly better multitasking score

5051 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6288 points

27% slightly better heavy workload score

4922 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

163.08 points

21% slightly higher Blender score

133.69 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6340 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

5700 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

996 points

1590 points

59% 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

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz

25% slightly higher clock speed

2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.3 GHz

4.5 GHz

36% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

120 W

15 W

700% 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

281st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Ryzen PRO 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

2022 January

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 7 PRO 5875U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 PRO 5875U is faster 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2680 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. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2680 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 PRO 5875U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 PRO 5875U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 PRO 5875U 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.