Intel Xeon E5-2695 v2 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500GT

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 12 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5000 Series 3 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

$ 197.70
$ 145.00
$ 52.70 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4633 points
5020 points
8% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4548 points
6843 points
50% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4652 points
4% slightly better multitasking score
4448 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4653 points
8% slightly better heavy workload score
4307 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

108.71 points
141.41 points
30% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
300% significantly more cores
3

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
300% significantly more threads
6

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz
3.6 GHz
49% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.2 GHz
4.4 GHz
37% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

115 W
65 W
76% 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

377th of 1,089
345th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v2 Family
Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 August
2024 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
-

Xeon E5-2695 v2 vs Ryzen 5 5500GT comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5500GT beats the Xeon E5-2695 v2 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2695 v2 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2695 v2 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5500GT. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2695 v2 has 12 cores compared to 3 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5500GT. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500GT. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5500GT has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2695 v2. Also, the Ryzen 5 5500GT has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5500GT outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2695 v2 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2695 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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