Intel Xeon E5-2697 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 5650GE

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 14 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 5000 Series Desktop 6 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

5860 points

10% slightly better overall score

5305 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4866 points

7718 points

58% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6204 points

35% slightly better multitasking score

4564 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6340 points

43% significantly better heavy workload score

4406 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

192.94 points

53% significantly higher Blender score

125.92 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7404 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

7066 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1086 points

1942 points

78% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

133% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

133% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz

3.40 GHz

30% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

4.4 GHz

22% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

145 W

35 W

314% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

263rd of 1,089

310th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Ryzen 5 PRO 5000 Series Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

2021 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2697 v3 vs Ryzen 5 PRO 5650GE benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650GE is faster 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 5650GE that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650GE. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650GE has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2697 v3. Also, the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650GE has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 PRO 5650GE 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.