AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs Intel Xeon E5-2697 v3

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 14 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2697 v3

Price

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$ 67.00

$ 188.59 significantly less expensive

$ 255.59

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4980 points

5860 points

17% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6742 points

38% slightly better gaming score

4866 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4418 points

6204 points

40% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4279 points

6340 points

48% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

133.67 points

192.94 points

44% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6809 points

7657 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1560 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1060 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6899 points

7404 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1613 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1086 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

133% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

133% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

38% slightly higher clock speed

2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

16% slightly higher turbo speed

3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

123% significantly lower TDP

145 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

352nd of 1,089

263rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

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 3600 vs Xeon E5-2697 v3 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2697 v3 beats the Ryzen 5 3600 in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3600 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2697 v3 has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 3600 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3600. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 3600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2697 v3. Also, the Ryzen 5 3600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3600 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2697 v3 CPU because of its significantly 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 3600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.