Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2 vs AMD Ryzen 5 8500G

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v2 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

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 1304.10
$ 155.73
$ 1148.37 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5072 points
5521 points
8% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5077 points
8044 points
58% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5065 points
6% slightly better multitasking score
4773 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5049 points
9% slightly better heavy workload score
4617 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

110.36 points
159.49 points
44% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4332 points
9444 points
118% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

561 points
2354 points
319% 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

2.7 GHz
3.55 GHz
31% 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

130 W
65 W
100% 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

343rd of 1,089
291st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v2 Family
Ryzen 8000 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
DDR5

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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Xeon E5-2697 v2 vs Ryzen 5 8500G comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2697 v2 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 E5-2697 v2 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 8500G has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2697 v2. Also, the Ryzen 5 8500G has a much higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 8500G outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2697 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 E5-2697 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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