Intel Xeon Silver 4210R vs AMD Ryzen 5 8640HS

Compare Intel 2nd Generation Xeon Scalable 10 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6883 points

7% slightly better overall score

6405 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5843 points

9018 points

54% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7219 points

29% slightly better multitasking score

5593 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7294 points

34% slightly better heavy workload score

5403 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

163.91 points

6% slightly higher Blender score

153.60 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6126 points

7982 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1087 points

2119 points

94% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

66% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz

3.50 GHz

45% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.2 GHz

4.9 GHz

53% significantly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

100 W

28 W

257% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

200% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

199th of 1,089

227th of 1,089

Family

The product line

2nd Generation Xeon Scalable

Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

DDR5 (FP7r2)

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon Silver 4210R vs Ryzen 5 8640HS specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon Silver 4210R beats the Ryzen 5 8640HS in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 8640HS has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon Silver 4210R has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 8640HS. Indeed, the Xeon Silver 4210R has 10 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 8640HS. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 8640HS. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 8640HS has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon Silver 4210R.

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.