Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 14 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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AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Price

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$ 1016.08

$ 74.99

$ 941.09 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6682 points

12% slightly better overall score

5931 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6240 points

7969 points

27% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6819 points

29% slightly better multitasking score

5267 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6860 points

34% slightly better heavy workload score

5102 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

200.70 points

41% slightly higher Blender score

141.88 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7768 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

7589 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1069 points

1833 points

71% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8934 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

7653 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1072 points

1872 points

74% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

133% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

133% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz

3.6 GHz

38% 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

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

211th of 1,089

256th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v4 Family

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 February

2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2690 v4 vs Ryzen 5 5500 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 5500 performs better than the Xeon E5-2690 v4. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2690 v4 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2690 v4 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5500. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2690 v4 has 14 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5500. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5500 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2690 v4. Also, the Ryzen 5 5500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5500 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2690 v4 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 E5-2690 v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.