AMD Ryzen 5 2600 vs Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 12 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

4363 points

4566 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5971 points

37% slightly better gaming score

4356 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3846 points

4649 points

20% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3723 points

4685 points

25% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

106.27 points

136.02 points

27% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4788 points

107% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2308 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1132 points

79% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

629 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

84% significantly lower TDP

120 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

414th of 1,103

394th of 1,103

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 E5-2676 v3 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 2600 beats the Xeon E5-2676 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2676 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2676 v3 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 2600 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 2600. A Ryzen 5 2600 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2676 v3 CPU because of its significantly 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 2600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.