AMD Ryzen 5 5600G vs Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 5000 G-Series Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 14 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4

Price

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$ 140.99

$ 70.96 significantly less expensive

$ 211.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6140 points

1% slightly better overall score

6066 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8293 points

45% significantly better gaming score

5717 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5448 points

6174 points

13% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5276 points

6198 points

17% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

146.73 points

195.63 points

33% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7577 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

6195 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1885 points

90% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

988 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7674 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

6901 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1931 points

88% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1027 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

133% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

133% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.9 GHz

62% significantly higher clock speed

2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz

33% slightly higher turbo speed

3.3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

84% significantly lower TDP

120 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

247th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 5000 G-Series Desktop

Xeon E5 v4 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 April

2016 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-1600

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 E5-2680 v4 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2680 v4 performs better than the Ryzen 5 5600G. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5600G has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2680 v4 has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5600G has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600G. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600G has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2680 v4. Also, the Ryzen 5 5600G has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5600G CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2680 v4 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.