AMD Ryzen 5 5600G vs Intel Xeon E5-2697 v3

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 5000 G-Series Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 14 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2697 v3

Price

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$ 140.99

$ 114.60 significantly less expensive

$ 255.59

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6140 points

4% slightly better overall score

5860 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8293 points

70% significantly better gaming score

4866 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5448 points

6204 points

13% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5276 points

6340 points

20% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

146.73 points

192.94 points

31% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7577 points

7657 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1885 points

77% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1060 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7674 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

7404 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1931 points

77% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1086 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

49% significantly higher clock speed

2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz

22% slightly higher turbo speed

3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

123% significantly lower TDP

145 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

263rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 5000 G-Series Desktop

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 April

2014 August

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 E5-2697 v3 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5600G beats the Xeon E5-2697 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2697 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2697 v3 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. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600G has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2697 v3. Also, the Ryzen 5 5600G has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5600G CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2697 v3 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.