Intel Xeon E5-2618L v3 vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U

Comparative analysis of Intel Xeon E5-2618L v3 and AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U processors for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Performance, Memory, Compatibility, Peripherals, Security & Reliability, Advanced Technologies, Virtualization, Graphics, Graphics interfaces. Benchmark processor performance analysis: PassMark - Single thread mark, PassMark - CPU mark, Geekbench 4 - Single Core, Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Xeon E5-2618L v3

  • 4 more cores, run more applications at once: 8 vs 4
  • 8 more threads: 16 vs 8
  • Around 7% better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 1905 vs 1784
  • Around 64% better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 10881 vs 6619
  • 5.2x better performance in Geekbench 4 - Single Core: 3682 vs 704
  • 7.6x better performance in Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core: 18932 vs 2503
Specifications (specs)
Number of cores 8 vs 4
Number of threads 16 vs 8
Max number of CPUs in a configuration 2 vs 1
Benchmarks
PassMark - Single thread mark 1905 vs 1784
PassMark - CPU mark 10881 vs 6619
Geekbench 4 - Single Core 3682 vs 704
Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core 18932 vs 2503

Reasons to consider the AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U

  • Around 6% higher clock speed: 3.6 GHz vs 3.40 GHz
  • Around 9% higher maximum core temperature: 95°C vs 87.025°C
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 14 nm vs 22 nm
  • 5x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 75 Watt
Maximum frequency 3.6 GHz vs 3.40 GHz
Maximum core temperature 95°C vs 87.025°C
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 22 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt vs 75 Watt

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: Intel Xeon E5-2618L v3
CPU 2: AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U

PassMark - Single thread mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
1905
1784
PassMark - CPU mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
10881
6619
Geekbench 4 - Single Core
CPU 1
CPU 2
3682
704
Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core
CPU 1
CPU 2
18932
2503
Name Intel Xeon E5-2618L v3 AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U
PassMark - Single thread mark 1905 1784
PassMark - CPU mark 10881 6619
Geekbench 4 - Single Core 3682 704
Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core 18932 2503
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 25.516
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 376.268
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 2.115
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 30.83
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 101.686
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1569
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1744
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 5962
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1569
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1744
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 5962

Compare specifications (specs)

Intel Xeon E5-2618L v3 AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U

Essentials

Architecture codename Haswell Zen
Launch date Q3'14 10 January 2018
Place in performance rating 342 744
Processor Number E5-2618LV3
Series Intel® Xeon® Processor E5 v3 Family AMD Ryzen 5 PRO Mobile Processors with Radeon Vega Graphics
Status Launched
Vertical segment Embedded Laptop
Family AMD Ryzen PRO Processors
OPN Tray YM250BC4T4MFB
OS Support Windows 10 - 64-Bit Edition, RHEL x86 64-Bit, Ubuntu x86 64-Bit

Performance

64 bit support
Base frequency 2.30 GHz 2 GHz
Bus Speed 8 GT/s QPI
Manufacturing process technology 22 nm 14 nm
Maximum core temperature 87.025°C 95°C
Maximum frequency 3.40 GHz 3.6 GHz
Number of cores 8 4
Number of QPI Links 2
Number of threads 16 8
VID voltage range 0.65V–1.30V
Die size 246 mm
L1 cache 384 KB
L2 cache 2 MB
L3 cache 4 MB
Number of GPU cores 8
Transistor count 4500 Million
Unlocked

Memory

Max memory channels 4 2
Maximum memory bandwidth 59 GB/s
Maximum memory size 768 GB
Supported memory types DDR4 1600/1866 DDR4
Supported memory frequency 2400 MHz

Compatibility

Low Halogen Options Available
Max number of CPUs in a configuration 2 1
Package Size 52.5mm x 45mm
Sockets supported FCLGA2011-3 FP5
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt 15 Watt
Configurable TDP 12-25 Watt
Thermal Solution Not included

Peripherals

Max number of PCIe lanes 40
PCI Express revision 3.0 3.0
PCIe configurations x4, x8, x16
Scalability 2S

Security & Reliability

Execute Disable Bit (EDB)
Intel® Identity Protection technology
Intel® OS Guard
Intel® Secure Key technology
Intel® Trusted Execution technology (TXT)

Advanced Technologies

Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® technology
Idle States
Instruction set extensions Intel® AVX2
Intel 64
Intel® AES New Instructions
Intel® Demand Based Switching
Intel® Flex Memory Access
Intel® Hyper-Threading technology
Intel® TSX-NI
Intel® Turbo Boost technology
Intel® vPro™ Platform Eligibility
Physical Address Extensions (PAE) 46-bit
Thermal Monitoring
AMD SenseMI
Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX)
The "Zen" Core Architecture

Virtualization

Intel® Virtualization Technology (VT-x)
Intel® Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (VT-d)
Intel® VT-x with Extended Page Tables (EPT)
AMD Virtualization (AMD-V™)

Graphics

Graphics max frequency 1100 MHz
iGPU core count 8
Processor graphics Radeon Vega 8 Graphics

Graphics interfaces

DisplayPort
HDMI