Intel Xeon X5680 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7530U

Compare Intel Xeon 6 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

4570 points
4604 points
0.74% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4503 points
6298 points
39% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4578 points
12% slightly better multitasking score
4083 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4568 points
15% slightly better heavy workload score
3956 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

56.43 points
104.53 points
85% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2476 points
5620 points
126% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

532 points
1634 points
207% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
Identical
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.33 GHz
66% significantly higher clock speed
2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz
4.5 GHz
25% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W
15 W
766% 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
380th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon
Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2010 February
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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Xeon X5680 vs Ryzen 5 7530U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 7530U 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 these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon X5680 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 7530U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7530U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7530U 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. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 7530U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon X5680. The Ryzen 5 7530U also has significantly more L3 cache.

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

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