AMD Ryzen 5 1600 vs Intel Xeon E5-2667 v4

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 58.40
$ 866.60 significantly less expensive
$ 925.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4496 points
4938 points
9% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6035 points
6135 points
1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3997 points
4537 points
13% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3874 points
4433 points
14% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

100.47 points
138.59 points
37% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4485 points
6681 points
48% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1048 points
1125 points
7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4641 points
6682 points
43% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1085 points
1174 points
8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
8
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
16
33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz
Identical
3.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz
Identical
3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
107% significantly lower TDP
135 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
354th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
Xeon E5 v4 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November
2016 February

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 E5-2667 v4 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2667 v4 performs better than the Ryzen 5 1600. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 1600 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2667 v4 has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 1600. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2667 v4 has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 1600. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 1600. In terms of clock speed, the Ryzen 5 1600 and Xeon E5-2667 v4 are identical in this regard. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. A Ryzen 5 1600 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2667 v4 CPU because of its significantly 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.

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