AMD Ryzen 5 1600X vs Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 14 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4

Price

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$ 97.99

$ 918.09 significantly less expensive

$ 1016.08

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4307 points

6682 points

55% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5864 points

6240 points

6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3810 points

6819 points

78% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3690 points

6860 points

85% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

104.40 points

200.70 points

92% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4930 points

7768 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1138 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1069 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4754 points

8934 points

87% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1136 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1072 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

133% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

133% significantly 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

14% slightly higher turbo speed

3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

42% slightly lower TDP

135 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

211th 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 February

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 E5-2690 v4 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2690 v4 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 E5-2690 v4 has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 1600X has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 1600X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 1600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2690 v4. A Ryzen 5 1600X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2690 v4 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.