AMD Ryzen 5 1600X vs Intel Xeon E5-2670 v3

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 12 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2670 v3

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$ 97.99

$ 1927.41 significantly less expensive

$ 2025.40

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4307 points

5014 points

16% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5864 points

17% slightly better gaming score

5009 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3810 points

5003 points

31% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3690 points

4989 points

35% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

104.40 points

145.84 points

39% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4930 points

5840 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1138 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

883 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4754 points

5958 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1136 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

941 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

56% significantly higher clock speed

2.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

29% slightly higher turbo speed

3.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

26% slightly lower TDP

120 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

346th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

2014 August

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 E5-2670 v3 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 1600X performs better than the Xeon E5-2670 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2670 v3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2670 v3 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 1600X. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2670 v3 has 12 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 1600X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 1600X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 1600X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2670 v3. A Ryzen 5 1600X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2670 v3 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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