AMD Ryzen 5 2600X vs Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 12 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

$ 109.25
$ 114.54 significantly less expensive
$ 223.79

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4431 points
5940 points
34% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6004 points
13% slightly better gaming score
5278 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3931 points
6174 points
57% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3809 points
6288 points
65% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

114.07 points
163.08 points
42% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5171 points
6648 points
28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1217 points
29% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
941 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5247 points
6340 points
20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1242 points
24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
996 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
12
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
24
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
44% significantly higher clock speed
2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.25 GHz
28% slightly higher turbo speed
3.3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
26% slightly lower TDP
120 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
4
100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

397th of 1,089
254th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 April
2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-1600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 5 2600X vs Xeon E5-2680 v3 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2680 v3 performs better than the Ryzen 5 2600X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 2600X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2680 v3 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 2600X. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2680 v3 has 12 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 2600X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 2600X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 2600X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2680 v3. Also, the Ryzen 5 2600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 2600X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2680 v3 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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

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