AMD Ryzen 5 3600X vs Intel Xeon E5-2687W

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 Family 8 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

$ 99.99
$ 899.01 significantly less expensive
$ 999.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5119 points
24% slightly better overall score
4113 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6906 points
41% slightly better gaming score
4879 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4555 points
18% slightly better multitasking score
3854 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4415 points
16% slightly better heavy workload score
3775 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

136.91 points
56% significantly higher Blender score
87.34 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6958 points
30% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
5319 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1612 points
125% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
716 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7073 points
105% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
3443 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1665 points
181% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
592 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
8
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
16
33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
22% slightly higher clock speed
3.10 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz
15% slightly higher turbo speed
3.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
57% significantly lower TDP
150 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
4
100% significantly more memory channels

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
49% significantly more L2 cache
2 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
60% significantly more L3 cache
20 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

336th of 1,089
426th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July
2012 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 5 3600X vs Xeon E5-2687W comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 3600X is faster than the Xeon E5-2687W. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2687W in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2687W has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 3600X has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3600X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 3600X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2687W. Also, the Ryzen 5 3600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3600X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2687W CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 3600X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon E5-2687W. The Ryzen 5 3600X also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 3600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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