Intel Xeon Silver 4210R vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Compare Intel 2nd Generation Xeon Scalable 10 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

$ 524.63
$ 74.99
$ 449.64 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6883 points
16% slightly better overall score
5931 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5843 points
7969 points
36% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7219 points
37% slightly better multitasking score
5267 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7294 points
42% significantly better heavy workload score
5102 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

163.91 points
15% slightly higher Blender score
141.88 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6126 points
7653 points
24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1087 points
1872 points
72% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

10
66% significantly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

20
66% significantly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz
3.6 GHz
49% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.2 GHz
4.2 GHz
31% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

100 W
65 W
53% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

6
200% significantly more memory channels
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

199th of 1,089
256th of 1,089

Family

The product line

2nd Generation Xeon Scalable
Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 February
2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
-

Xeon Silver 4210R vs Ryzen 5 5500 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon Silver 4210R is faster than the Ryzen 5 5500. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon Silver 4210R has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 5500 that has 6 cores. 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 Silver 4210R. Also, the Ryzen 5 5500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5500 outputs less heat than Xeon Silver 4210R 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 Silver 4210R has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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