AMD Ryzen 5 5600G vs Intel Xeon E5-2650 v2

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 5000 G-Series Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2650 v2

Price

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$ 140.99

$ 44.01 significantly less expensive

$ 185.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6140 points

63% significantly better overall score

3764 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8293 points

82% significantly better gaming score

4552 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5448 points

56% significantly better multitasking score

3492 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5276 points

54% significantly better heavy workload score

3415 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

146.73 points

103% significantly higher Blender score

71.99 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7577 points

134% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

3234 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1885 points

257% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

528 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7674 points

142% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

3167 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1931 points

272% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

518 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.9 GHz

49% significantly higher clock speed

2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz

29% slightly higher turbo speed

3.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

46% significantly lower TDP

95 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

454th 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 E5-2650 v2 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5600G is faster than the Xeon E5-2650 v2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2650 v2 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2650 v2 has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5600G has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600G. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5600G has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2650 v2. Also, the Ryzen 5 5600G has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5600G CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2650 v2 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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