Intel Xeon E5-2699 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 18 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 529.95
$ 74.99
$ 454.96 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6700 points
12% slightly better overall score
5931 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5199 points
7969 points
53% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7270 points
38% slightly better multitasking score
5267 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7597 points
48% significantly better heavy workload score
5102 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

219.38 points
54% significantly higher Blender score
141.88 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

18
200% significantly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

36
200% significantly more threads
12

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

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

210th 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
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Xeon E5-2699 v3 vs Ryzen 5 5500 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2699 v3 beats the Ryzen 5 5500 in overall performance. 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 E5-2699 v3 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5500. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2699 v3 has 18 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5500. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5500 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2699 v3. Also, the Ryzen 5 5500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5500 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2699 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 E5-2699 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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