Intel Xeon E5-2698 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 16 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Price

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$ 729.95

$ 74.99

$ 654.96 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6109 points

2% slightly better overall score

5932 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5454 points

7972 points

46% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6350 points

20% slightly better multitasking score

5268 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6447 points

26% slightly better heavy workload score

5102 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

190.75 points

34% slightly higher Blender score

141.88 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6221 points

7589 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

950 points

1833 points

92% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7350 points

7653 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1043 points

1872 points

79% 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

2.3 GHz

3.6 GHz

56% significantly 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

135 W

65 W

107% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

245th of 1,089

256th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2698 v3 vs Ryzen 5 5500 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2698 v3 performs better than the Ryzen 5 5500. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2698 v3 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5500. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2698 v3 has 16 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5500. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5500 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2698 v3. Also, the Ryzen 5 5500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5500 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2698 v3 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 E5-2698 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.