AMD Ryzen 5 4600G vs Intel Xeon E5-2640 v3

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 4000 G-Series Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2640 v3

Price

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$ 235.64

$ 63.20

$ 172.44 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5232 points

3% slightly better overall score

5079 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7191 points

38% slightly better gaming score

5205 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4599 points

5069 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4451 points

5131 points

15% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

122.88 points

8% slightly higher Blender score

113.01 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6106 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

5384 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1578 points

51% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1040 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

42% slightly higher clock speed

2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

23% slightly higher turbo speed

3.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

38% slightly lower TDP

90 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

321st of 1,089

341st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 4000 G-Series Desktop

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 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 4600G vs Xeon E5-2640 v3 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2640 v3 is faster than the Ryzen 5 4600G. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 4600G has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2640 v3 has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 4600G has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 4600G. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 4600G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2640 v3. Also, the Ryzen 5 4600G has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 4600G CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2640 v3 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 4600G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.