AMD Ryzen 5 4600G vs Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 4000 G-Series Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 12 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
5240 points
0.15% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7191 points
38% slightly better gaming score
5199 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4599 points
5238 points
13% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4451 points
5217 points
17% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

122.88 points
19% slightly higher Blender score
103.15 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6106 points
49% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
4084 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1578 points
195% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
534 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
12
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
24
100% significantly more threads

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

321st of 1,089
320th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 4000 G-Series Desktop
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 July
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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Ryzen 5 4600G vs Xeon E5-2696 v2 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 4600G is faster than the Xeon E5-2696 v2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2696 v2 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2696 v2 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 4600G. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2696 v2 has 12 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 4600G. It also has more threads than 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.

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