AMD Ryzen 5 2600X vs Intel Xeon E5-2689

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2689

Price

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$ 109.25

$ 0.70 slightly less expensive

$ 109.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4431 points

5% slightly better overall score

4209 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6004 points

23% slightly better gaming score

4875 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3931 points

3976 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3809 points

3900 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

114.07 points

44% significantly higher Blender score

78.82 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

21% slightly lower TDP

115 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

397th of 1,089

418th 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 E5-2689 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2689 performs better than the Ryzen 5 2600X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 2600X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2689 has slightly more cores with 8 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 E5-2689 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.