AMD Ryzen 5 1600 vs Intel Xeon Silver 4210R

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 2nd Generation Xeon Scalable 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon Silver 4210R

Price

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$ 58.40

$ 466.23 significantly less expensive

$ 524.63

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4496 points

6883 points

53% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6035 points

3% slightly better gaming score

5843 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3997 points

7219 points

80% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3874 points

7294 points

88% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

100.47 points

163.91 points

63% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4641 points

6126 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1085 points

1087 points

0.18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

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

53% significantly lower TDP

100 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

200% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

390th of 1,089

199th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

2nd Generation Xeon Scalable

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

2020 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-2400

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 Silver 4210R comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon Silver 4210R beats the Ryzen 5 1600 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 1600 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon Silver 4210R has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 1600 that 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 Silver 4210R. Also, the Ryzen 5 1600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 1600 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon Silver 4210R 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.