Intel Xeon E5-2697 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 14 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

$ 255.59
$ 243.41 significantly less expensive
$ 499.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5860 points
9% slightly better overall score
5333 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4866 points
7406 points
52% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6204 points
33% slightly better multitasking score
4663 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6340 points
40% slightly better heavy workload score
4507 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

192.94 points
50% significantly higher Blender score
127.97 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7657 points
23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
6221 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1060 points
1526 points
43% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7404 points
21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
6107 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1086 points
1564 points
44% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

14
133% significantly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

28
133% significantly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz
3.70 GHz
42% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz
4.2 GHz
16% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

145 W
65 W
123% 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

263rd of 1,089
308th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family
Ryzen 5 PRO 4000 Series Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August
2020 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
-

Xeon E5-2697 v3 vs Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G performs better than the Xeon E5-2697 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2697 v3 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2697 v3 has significantly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2697 v3. Also, the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2697 v3 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2697 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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