Intel Xeon E5-2689 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500

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
$ 74.99
$ 34.96 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4209 points
5931 points
40% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4875 points
7969 points
63% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3976 points
5267 points
32% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3900 points
5102 points
30% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

78.82 points
141.88 points
80% 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
256th 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 5500 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5500 beats the Xeon E5-2689 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2689 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2689 has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5500 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500. The Ryzen 5 5500 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.

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

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