AMD Ryzen 5 1600X vs Intel Xeon X5675

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

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 97.99
$ 49.89 significantly less expensive
$ 147.88

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4307 points
4455 points
3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5864 points
33% slightly better gaming score
4385 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3810 points
4466 points
17% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3690 points
4450 points
20% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

104.40 points
93% significantly higher Blender score
53.89 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4930 points
99% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
2477 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1138 points
126% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
503 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4754 points
95% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
2434 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1136 points
125% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
503 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
Identical
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
17% slightly higher clock speed
3.06 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
15% slightly higher turbo speed
3.46 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
3
49% significantly more memory channels

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache
1.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
33% slightly more L3 cache
12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

409th of 1,089
393rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November
2011 February

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 X5675 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon X5675 performs better than the Ryzen 5 1600X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 1600X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon X5675. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1600X has significantly more L2 cache than the Xeon X5675. The Ryzen 5 1600X also has slightly more L3 cache.

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.

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