Intel Xeon X5680 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500GT

Compare Intel Xeon 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5000 Series 3 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

$ 147.98
$ 145.00
$ 2.98 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4570 points
5020 points
9% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4503 points
6843 points
51% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4578 points
2% slightly better multitasking score
4448 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4568 points
6% slightly better heavy workload score
4307 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

56.43 points
141.41 points
150% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
100% significantly more cores
3

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
100% significantly more threads
6

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.33 GHz
3.6 GHz
8% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz
4.4 GHz
22% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W
65 W
100% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

3
49% significantly more memory channels
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.02 MiB
3 MiB
14528% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

1 MiB
16 MiB
1500% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

383rd of 1,089
345th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon
Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2010 February
2024 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
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 X5680 vs Ryzen 5 5500GT comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5500GT beats the Xeon X5680 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon X5680 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon X5680 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 5500GT that has 3 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500GT. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5500GT has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon X5680. Also, the Ryzen 5 5500GT has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5500GT outputs less heat than Xeon X5680 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5500GT has significantly more L2 cache than the Xeon X5680. The Ryzen 5 5500GT also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 X5680 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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