Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 5 2500U. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Mobile
• Family
  Intel Xeon E5 AMD Ryzen
• Generation
  5 1
• CPU group
  Intel Xeon E5 v3 AMD Ryzen 2000U
• Predecessor
  Intel Xeon E5-2630 v2 --
• Successor
  Intel Xeon E5-2630 v4 --

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Frequency
  2.40 GHz 2.00 GHz
• CPU Cores
  8 4
• Turbo (1 Core)
  3.20 GHz 3.60 GHz
• CPU Threads
  16 8
• Hyperthreading
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Core architecture
  normal normal

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  no iGPU AMD Radeon Vega 8 Graphics
• GPU frequency
  1.10 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  8
• Shader
  512
• Max. GPU Memory
  -- 2 GB
• Max. displays
  3
• Generation
  8
• DirectX Version
  12
• Technology
  14 nm
• Release date
  Q1/2018

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• h264
  No Decode / Encode
• VP9
  No Decode / Encode
• VP8
  No Decode / Encode
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  No Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  No Decode
• JPEG
  No Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Ryzen 5 2500U and Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-2133 DDR4-2400
• Max. Memory
  32 GB
• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Memory channels
  4 2
• PCIe version
  3.0 3.0
• PCIe lanes
  40 12

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 and AMD Ryzen 5 2500U to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  85 W 15 W
• TDP up
  -- 25 W
• TDP down
  -- 12 W
• Tjunction max.
  -- 95 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 and Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d AMD-V, SVM
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• L3-Cache
  20.00 MB 4.00 MB
• Architecture
  Haswell E Raven Ridge (Zen)
• Technology
  22 nm 14 nm
• Socket
  LGA 2011-3 AM4
• Release date
  Q3/2014 Q4/2017