Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4 vs AMD Ryzen 5 8500G

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 16 core CPU vs AMD 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 5 8500G

Price

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$ 1277.90

$ 155.73

$ 1122.17 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8324 points

50% significantly better overall score

5521 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6186 points

8044 points

30% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9116 points

90% significantly better multitasking score

4773 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9598 points

107% significantly better heavy workload score

4617 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

224.42 points

40% slightly higher Blender score

159.49 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8264 points

9444 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1062 points

2354 points

121% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

166% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

166% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.60 GHz

3.55 GHz

36% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

5 GHz

38% 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

100% significantly more memory channels

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

6 MiB

49% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

40 MiB

150% significantly more L3 cache

16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

134th of 1,089

291st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v4 Family

Ryzen 8000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 February

2024 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

DDR5

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2697A v4 vs Ryzen 5 8500G benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2697A v4 performs better than the Ryzen 5 8500G. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 8500G has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 8500G has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 8500G. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 8500G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2697A v4. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 8500G has significantly more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-2697A v4. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 8500G.

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 E5-2697A v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.