AMD Ryzen 5 1600 vs Intel Xeon X5680

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon 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
$ 89.58 significantly less expensive
$ 147.98

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4496 points
4570 points
1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6035 points
34% slightly better gaming score
4503 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3997 points
4578 points
14% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3874 points
4568 points
17% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

100.47 points
78% significantly higher Blender score
56.43 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4485 points
73% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
2584 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1048 points
95% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
535 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4641 points
87% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
2476 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1085 points
103% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
532 points

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
3.33 GHz
3% slightly higher clock speed

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
100% significantly lower TDP
130 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
3
49% significantly more memory channels

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
14528% significantly more L2 cache
0.02 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
1500% significantly more L3 cache
1 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

390th of 1,089
383rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November
2010 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR3-1066

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 X5680 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 1600 beats the Xeon X5680 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon X5680 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon X5680 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 1600. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 1600 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon X5680 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 1600 has more L2 cache than the Xeon X5680. The Ryzen 5 1600 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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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