AMD Ryzen 5 1600X vs Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2

Price

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$ 97.99

$ 7.78 slightly less expensive

$ 105.77

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4307 points

4438 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5864 points

21% slightly better gaming score

4819 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3810 points

4302 points

12% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3690 points

4265 points

15% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

104.40 points

3% slightly higher Blender score

100.42 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4930 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

3964 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1138 points

107% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

549 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4754 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

3854 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1136 points

101% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

563 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

66% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

28% slightly higher clock speed

2.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

11% slightly higher turbo speed

3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

21% slightly lower TDP

115 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

396th of 1,089

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

Ryzen 5 1600X vs Xeon E5-2680 v2 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2680 v2 beats the Ryzen 5 1600X in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 1600X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2680 v2 has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 1600X has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 1600X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 1600X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2680 v2. A Ryzen 5 1600X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2680 v2 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.