AMD Ryzen 5 4600G vs Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 4000 G-Series Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3

Price

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$ 235.64

$ 314.31 significantly less expensive

$ 549.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5232 points

5% slightly better overall score

4981 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7191 points

30% slightly better gaming score

5531 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4599 points

4782 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4451 points

4706 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

122.88 points

151.35 points

23% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6106 points

6616 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1578 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1070 points

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

19% slightly higher clock speed

3.10 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

20% slightly higher turbo speed

3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

146% significantly lower TDP

160 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

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

351st 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 E5-2687W v3 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 4600G is faster than the Xeon E5-2687W v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2687W v3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2687W v3 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 4600G. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2687W v3 has 10 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 4600G. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 4600G. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 4600G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2687W v3. Also, the Ryzen 5 4600G has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 4600G CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2687W v3 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 4600G has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon E5-2687W v3. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2687W 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.