AMD Ryzen 5 1600X vs Intel Xeon E5-1650 v4

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

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4307 points

0.44% slightly better overall score

4288 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5864 points

6056 points

3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3810 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

3725 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3690 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

3606 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

104.40 points

10% slightly higher Blender score

94.25 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4930 points

5425 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1138 points

0.18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1136 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4754 points

5449 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1136 points

1187 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

Identical

3.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

Identical

4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

47% significantly lower TDP

140 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

409th of 1,089

410th 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 May

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 1600X vs Xeon E5-1650 v4 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 1600X beats the Xeon E5-1650 v4 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E5-1650 v4 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Both the Ryzen 5 1600X and Xeon E5-1650 v4 have the same clock speed. A Ryzen 5 1600X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1650 v4 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 1600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.