Intel Xeon E5-2690 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 12 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4000 Series Desktop 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 415.02
$ 83.98 slightly less expensive
$ 499.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5502 points
3% slightly better overall score
5333 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5267 points
7406 points
40% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5565 points
19% slightly better multitasking score
4663 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5563 points
23% slightly better heavy workload score
4507 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5872 points
6809 points
15% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

165.47 points
29% slightly higher Blender score
127.97 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6942 points
11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
6221 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1009 points
1526 points
51% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7090 points
16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
6107 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1072 points
1564 points
45% 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
3.70 GHz
42% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz
4.2 GHz
20% slightly 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
308th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family
Ryzen 5 PRO 4000 Series Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August
2020 July

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 PRO 4650G benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2690 v3 performs better than the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2690 v3 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2690 v3 has 12 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2690 v3. Also, the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G 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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