AMD Ryzen 5 1600 vs Intel Xeon E5-2660 v3

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2660 v3

Price

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$ 58.40

$ 131.55 significantly less expensive

$ 189.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4496 points

12% slightly better overall score

3996 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6035 points

43% significantly better gaming score

4213 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3997 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

3900 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3874 points

0.65% slightly better heavy workload score

3849 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

100.47 points

129.03 points

28% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4485 points

5920 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1048 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

975 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4641 points

5959 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1085 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

985 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

66% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz

23% slightly higher clock speed

2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

9% slightly higher turbo speed

3.3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

61% significantly lower TDP

105 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

436th 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 E5-2660 v3 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 1600 is faster than the Xeon E5-2660 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2660 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2660 v3 has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 1600 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 1600. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 1600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2660 v3. Also, the Ryzen 5 1600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 1600 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2660 v3 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.