AMD Ryzen 5 5600 vs Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 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

6267 points

29% slightly better overall score

4823 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8333 points

56% significantly better gaming score

5321 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5604 points

20% slightly better multitasking score

4658 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5431 points

17% slightly better heavy workload score

4614 points

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3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5664 points

17% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

4806 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

150.92 points

152.03 points

0.73% 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

3.50 GHz

20% 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

32 MiB

28% slightly more L3 cache

25 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

237th of 1,089

363rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 5600 vs Xeon E5-2666 v3 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5600 is faster than the Xeon E5-2666 v3. 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 5600 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5600 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 5600 has slightly more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-2666 v3. The Ryzen 5 5600 also has slightly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.