Intel Xeon E5-2699 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 5 8500G

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 18 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 8000 Series 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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$ 529.95

$ 155.73

$ 374.22 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6700 points

21% slightly better overall score

5521 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5199 points

8044 points

54% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7270 points

52% significantly better multitasking score

4773 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7597 points

64% significantly better heavy workload score

4617 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

219.38 points

37% slightly higher Blender score

159.49 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

200% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz

3.55 GHz

54% significantly 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

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

210th of 1,089

291st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Ryzen 8000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

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 E5-2699 v3 vs Ryzen 5 8500G comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 8500G performs better than the Xeon E5-2699 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2699 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2699 v3 has significantly more cores with 18 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 significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2699 v3. Also, the Ryzen 5 8500G has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 8500G 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.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2699 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.