Intel Xeon E5-2687W v4 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500X3D

Xeon E5-2687W v4 vs Ryzen 5 5500X3D comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2687W v4 beats the Ryzen 5 5500X3D in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5500X3D has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2687W v4 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5500X3D. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2687W v4 has 12 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5500X3D. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500X3D. Both the Xeon E5-2687W v4 and Ryzen 5 5500X3D have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5500X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5500X3D outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2687W v4 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 5 5500X3D also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2687W v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.