Intel Xeon E5-2690 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5625U

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 12 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 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

5502 points
31% slightly better overall score
4185 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5267 points
5956 points
13% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5565 points
52% significantly better multitasking score
3648 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5563 points
57% significantly better heavy workload score
3528 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

165.47 points
63% significantly higher Blender score
101.12 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7090 points
29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
5479 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1072 points
1585 points
47% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
100% significantly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
100% significantly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz
12% slightly higher clock speed
2.30 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz
4.3 GHz
22% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

135 W
15 W
800% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
100% significantly more memory channels
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

294th of 1,089
421st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family
Ryzen 5 Mobile

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

-
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
-

Xeon E5-2690 v3 vs Ryzen 5 5625U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2690 v3 beats the Ryzen 5 5625U in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5625U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2690 v3 has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 5625U that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5625U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2690 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5625U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5625U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5625U outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2690 v3 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2690 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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