AMD Ryzen 5 2600X vs Intel Xeon E5-2673 v4

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 20 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2673 v4

Price

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$ 109.25

$ 89.00

$ 20.25 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4431 points

6502 points

46% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6004 points

15% slightly better gaming score

5216 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3931 points

6982 points

77% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3809 points

7212 points

89% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

114.07 points

243.49 points

113% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5171 points

10534 points

103% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1217 points

66% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

731 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5247 points

7218 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1242 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

952 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

233% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

233% significantly more threads

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

42% slightly lower TDP

135 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

397th of 1,089

219th 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 2600X vs Xeon E5-2673 v4 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2673 v4 beats the Ryzen 5 2600X in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 2600X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2673 v4 has significantly more cores with 20 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 2600X has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 2600X. A Ryzen 5 2600X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2673 v4 CPU because of its slightly 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 2600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.