AMD Ryzen 5 1600X vs Intel Xeon E3-1220 v5

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E3 v5 Family 4 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

$ 97.99
$ 231.96 significantly less expensive
$ 329.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4307 points
78% significantly better overall score
2407 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5864 points
32% slightly better gaming score
4431 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3810 points
107% significantly better multitasking score
1840 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3690 points
108% significantly better heavy workload score
1766 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

104.40 points
119% significantly higher Blender score
47.62 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4930 points
45% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
3379 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1138 points
1204 points
5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4754 points
42% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
3325 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1136 points
1198 points
5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
49% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
200% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
19% slightly higher clock speed
3.00 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
14% slightly higher turbo speed
3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
80 W
18% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
200% significantly more L2 cache
1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache
8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

409th of 1,089
642nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
Xeon E3 v5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November
2015 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-1866

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 5 1600X vs Xeon E3-1220 v5 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 1600X beats the Xeon E3-1220 v5 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1220 v5 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 1600X has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Xeon E3-1220 v5 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1220 v5. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1220 v5. Also, the Ryzen 5 1600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E3-1220 v5 outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 1600X thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 1600X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon E3-1220 v5. The Ryzen 5 1600X also has significantly more L3 cache.

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

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