AMD Ryzen 5 5600G vs Intel Xeon E5-1650 v2

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 5000 G-Series Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-1650 v2

Price

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$ 140.99

$ 88.96 significantly less expensive

$ 229.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6140 points

67% significantly better overall score

3665 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8293 points

64% significantly better gaming score

5028 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5448 points

68% significantly better multitasking score

3232 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5276 points

68% significantly better heavy workload score

3132 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

146.73 points

102% significantly higher Blender score

72.62 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7577 points

138% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

3177 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1885 points

195% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

637 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7674 points

131% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

3309 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1931 points

187% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

672 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.9 GHz

11% slightly higher clock speed

3.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz

12% slightly higher turbo speed

3.9 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

100% significantly lower TDP

130 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

243rd of 1,089

467th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 5000 G-Series Desktop

Xeon E5 v2 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 April

2013 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 5 5600G vs Xeon E5-1650 v2 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5600G is faster than the Xeon E5-1650 v2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1650 v2 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5600G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-1650 v2. Also, the Ryzen 5 5600G has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5600G CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1650 v2 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 5600G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.