AMD Ryzen 5 4600G vs Intel Xeon E5-2665

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 4000 G-Series 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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Intel Xeon E5-2665

Price

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$ 235.64

$ 106.93

$ 128.71 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5232 points

5548 points

6% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7191 points

57% significantly better gaming score

4569 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4599 points

5916 points

28% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4451 points

6106 points

37% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

122.88 points

68% significantly higher Blender score

73.09 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6106 points

115% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2832 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1578 points

249% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

452 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

54% significantly higher clock speed

2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

35% slightly higher turbo speed

3.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

76% significantly lower TDP

115 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

322nd of 1,089

288th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 4000 G-Series Desktop

Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 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 4600G vs Xeon E5-2665 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2665 performs better 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 E5-2665 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 4600G has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2665. Also, the Ryzen 5 4600G has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 4600G CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2665 CPU because of its significantly 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.