AMD Ryzen 5 4600G vs Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 4000 G-Series Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5232 points

8% slightly better overall score

4823 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7191 points

35% slightly better gaming score

5321 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4599 points

4658 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4451 points

4614 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

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3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4871 points

1% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

4806 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

122.88 points

152.03 points

23% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

66% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

27% slightly higher clock speed

2.90 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

20% slightly more L2 cache

2.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

25 MiB

212% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

322nd of 1,089

363rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 4000 G-Series Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 4600G vs Xeon E5-2666 v3 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 4600G beats the Xeon E5-2666 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2666 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has significantly more cores with 10 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 slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2666 v3. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 4600G has more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-2666 v3. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 4600G.

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.