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

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 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

4557 points
4823 points
5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6332 points
19% slightly better gaming score
5321 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3995 points
4658 points
16% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3865 points
4614 points
19% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4367 points
4806 points
10% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

105.84 points
152.03 points
43% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
10
66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
20
66% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz
3% 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

385th of 1,089
363rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 June
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
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Ryzen 5 4600H vs Xeon E5-2666 v3 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 is faster than the Ryzen 5 4600H. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 4600H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 4600H that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 4600H. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 4600H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2666 v3. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 4600H has slightly 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 4600H.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 4600H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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