Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2 vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v2 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

$ 1304.10
$ 499.00
$ 805.10 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5072 points
5333 points
5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5077 points
7406 points
45% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5065 points
8% slightly better multitasking score
4663 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5049 points
12% slightly better heavy workload score
4507 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

110.36 points
127.97 points
15% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4379 points
6221 points
42% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

564 points
1526 points
170% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4332 points
6107 points
40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

561 points
1564 points
178% 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
3.70 GHz
37% 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

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
308th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v2 Family
Ryzen 5 PRO 4000 Series Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 August
2020 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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Xeon E5-2697 v2 vs Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G performs better than the Xeon E5-2697 v2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2697 v2 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2697 v2 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2697 v2 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. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2697 v2. Also, the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G 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.

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 E5-2697 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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