AMD Ryzen 5 1600 vs Intel Xeon E5-1650 v3

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 6 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

$ 58.40
$ 1297.60 significantly less expensive
$ 1356.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4496 points
19% slightly better overall score
3769 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6035 points
15% slightly better gaming score
5233 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3997 points
20% slightly better multitasking score
3308 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3874 points
20% slightly better heavy workload score
3206 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

100.47 points
11% slightly higher Blender score
90.40 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4485 points
5154 points
14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1048 points
1099 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4641 points
5477 points
18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1085 points
1201 points
10% slightly 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

3.2 GHz
3.5 GHz
9% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz
3.8 GHz
5% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
115% significantly lower TDP
140 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
4
100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

390th of 1,089
453rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November
2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 5 1600 vs Xeon E5-1650 v3 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 1600 beats the Xeon E5-1650 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1650 v3 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 E5-1650 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 1600. Also, the Xeon E5-1650 v3 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 1600 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1650 v3 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 Ryzen 5 1600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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