AMD Ryzen 5 2600 vs Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3

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

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4361 points

4823 points

10% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5968 points

12% slightly better gaming score

5321 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3844 points

4658 points

21% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3721 points

4614 points

23% slightly better heavy workload score

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3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3464 points

4806 points

38% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

106.27 points

152.03 points

43% significantly higher Blender score

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

3.4 GHz

17% slightly higher clock speed

2.90 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

20% slightly more L2 cache

2.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

25 MiB

56% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

404th of 1,089

363rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 2600 vs Xeon E5-2666 v3 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2666 v3 performs better than the Ryzen 5 2600. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 2600 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 2600. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has 10 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 2600. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 2600. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 2600 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2666 v3. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 2600 has more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-2666 v3. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 2600.

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 2600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.