AMD Ryzen 5 1600 vs Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3

Price

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$ 58.40

$ 400.60 significantly less expensive

$ 459.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4496 points

5169 points

14% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6035 points

32% slightly better gaming score

4558 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3997 points

5431 points

35% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3874 points

5595 points

44% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

100.47 points

106.21 points

5% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4485 points

4845 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1048 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

913 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4641 points

5055 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1085 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

944 points

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

3.2 GHz

33% slightly higher clock speed

2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

12% slightly higher turbo speed

3.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

30% slightly lower TDP

85 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

390th of 1,089

330th 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

DDR4-1600

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 E5-2630 v3 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2630 v3 beats the Ryzen 5 1600 in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 1600 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2630 v3 has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 1600 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 1600. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 1600 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2630 v3. Also, the Ryzen 5 1600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 1600 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2630 v3 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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