AMD Ryzen 5 2600 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

$ 99.99
$ 47.89 significantly less expensive
$ 147.88

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4361 points
4455 points
2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5968 points
36% slightly better gaming score
4385 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3844 points
4466 points
16% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3721 points
4450 points
19% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

106.27 points
97% significantly higher Blender score
53.89 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4788 points
93% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
2477 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1132 points
125% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
503 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4891 points
100% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
2434 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1163 points
131% 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

3.4 GHz
11% slightly higher clock speed
3.06 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz
12% slightly higher turbo speed
3.46 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
46% significantly lower TDP
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

404th 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

2018 April
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 2600 vs Xeon X5675 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon X5675 beats the Ryzen 5 2600 in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 2600 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 2600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon X5675. Also, the Ryzen 5 2600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 2600 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon X5675 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. 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 2600 has significantly more L2 cache than the Xeon X5675. The Ryzen 5 2600 also has slightly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 2600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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