Intel Xeon E5-2690 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 5 8500G

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 12 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 8000 Series 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 415.02
$ 155.73
$ 259.29 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5502 points
5521 points
0.35% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5267 points
8044 points
52% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5565 points
16% slightly better multitasking score
4773 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5563 points
20% slightly better heavy workload score
4617 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5872 points
12% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
5215 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

165.47 points
3% slightly higher Blender score
159.49 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7090 points
9444 points
33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1072 points
2354 points
119% 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
3.55 GHz
36% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz
5 GHz
42% much higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

135 W
65 W
107% 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
291st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family
Ryzen 8000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August
2024 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600
DDR5

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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Xeon E5-2690 v3 vs Ryzen 5 8500G specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2690 v3 beats the Ryzen 5 8500G in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 8500G 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 8500G that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 8500G. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 8500G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2690 v3. Also, the Ryzen 5 8500G has a much higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 8500G 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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