AMD Ryzen 5 1600X vs Intel Xeon E5-2650 v2

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Price

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$ 97.99
$ 87.01 significantly less expensive
$ 185.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4307 points
4% slightly better overall score
4138 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5864 points
26% slightly better gaming score
4640 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3810 points
3964 points
4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3690 points
3921 points
6% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

104.40 points
45% significantly higher Blender score
71.99 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4930 points
52% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
3234 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1138 points
115% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
528 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4754 points
50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
3167 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1136 points
119% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
518 points

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

3.6 GHz
38% slightly higher clock speed
2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
17% slightly higher turbo speed
3.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
Identical
95 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
4
100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

417th of 1,102
432nd of 1,102

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
Xeon E5 v2 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November
2013 August

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

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