AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs Intel Xeon E5-2698 v3

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2698 v3

Price

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$ 67.00

$ 662.95 significantly less expensive

$ 729.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4980 points

6109 points

22% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6742 points

23% slightly better gaming score

5454 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4418 points

6350 points

43% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4279 points

6447 points

50% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

133.67 points

190.75 points

42% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6809 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

6221 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1560 points

64% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

950 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6899 points

7350 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1613 points

54% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1043 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

166% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

166% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

56% significantly higher clock speed

2.3 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

107% significantly lower TDP

135 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

245th 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 E5-2698 v3 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2698 v3 is faster than the Ryzen 5 3600. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3600 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2698 v3 has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 3600 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3600. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 3600 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2698 v3. Also, the Ryzen 5 3600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3600 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2698 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.