Intel Xeon E5-2689 vs AMD Ryzen 5 4500

Compare Intel 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 109.95
$ 68.37
$ 41.58 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4209 points
5312 points
26% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4875 points
7287 points
49% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3976 points
4672 points
17% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3900 points
4523 points
15% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

78.82 points
124.29 points
57% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
33% slightly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
33% slightly more threads
12

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

115 W
65 W
76% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

418th of 1,089
309th of 1,089

Family

The product line

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Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

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Yes

Xeon E5-2689 vs Ryzen 5 4500 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 4500 performs better than the Xeon E5-2689. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2689 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2689 has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 4500. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2689 has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 4500. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 4500. The Ryzen 5 4500 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2689 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 E5-2689 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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