Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500GT

Compare Intel 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5240 points

4% slightly better overall score

5020 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5199 points

6843 points

31% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5238 points

17% slightly better multitasking score

4448 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5217 points

21% slightly better heavy workload score

4307 points

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Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

103.15 points

141.41 points

37% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

300% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

300% significantly more threads

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Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

320th of 1,089

345th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Xeon E5-2696 v2 vs Ryzen 5 5500GT comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2696 v2 is faster than the Ryzen 5 5500GT. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5500GT has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2696 v2 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5500GT has 3 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500GT.

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 E5-2696 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.