AMD Ryzen 5 1600X vs Intel Xeon W-2135

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

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Intel Xeon W-2135

Price

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$ 97.99

$ 429.29 significantly less expensive

$ 527.28

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4307 points

5166 points

19% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5864 points

7095 points

20% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3810 points

4541 points

19% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3690 points

4393 points

19% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

104.40 points

110.04 points

5% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4930 points

6662 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1138 points

1386 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4754 points

6531 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1136 points

1405 points

23% 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

3.7 GHz

2% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

4.5 GHz

12% slightly higher turbo speed

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

418th of 1,104

341st of 1,104

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Xeon W

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

2017 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 W-2135 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon W-2135 performs better than the Ryzen 5 1600X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 1600X in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon W-2135 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 1600X. A Ryzen 5 1600X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon W-2135 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.