Intel Xeon X5680 vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U

Compare Intel Xeon 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen PRO 5000 Series 8 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

4640 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4503 points

6078 points

34% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4578 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

4227 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4568 points

10% slightly better heavy workload score

4149 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

56.43 points

119.67 points

112% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2584 points

6258 points

142% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

535 points

1694 points

216% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2476 points

6151 points

148% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

532 points

1677 points

215% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.33 GHz

74% significantly higher clock speed

1.90 GHz

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

15 W

766% significantly lower TDP

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.02 MiB

4 MiB

19404% 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

376th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon

Ryzen PRO 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2010 February

2021 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon X5680 vs Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U beats the Xeon X5680 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon X5680 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Xeon X5680 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon X5680. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon X5680 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U 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 info from our database shows that the Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U has more L2 cache than the Xeon X5680. The Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Xeon X5680 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.