AMD Ryzen 5 5600G vs Intel Xeon W-11855M

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 5000 G-Series Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon W 6 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

6140 points

16% slightly better overall score

5286 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8293 points

10% slightly better gaming score

7503 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5448 points

18% slightly better multitasking score

4615 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5276 points

18% slightly better heavy workload score

4471 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

146.73 points

20% slightly higher Blender score

121.37 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7674 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

7586 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1931 points

1985 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

21% slightly higher clock speed

3.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz

4.9 GHz

11% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

45 W

44% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

480 KiB

25% slightly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

18 MiB

12% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

243rd of 1,089

312th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 5000 G-Series Desktop

Xeon W

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 April

2021 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

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 W-11855M comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon W-11855M performs better than the Ryzen 5 5600G. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5600G in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number 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 W-11855M. Despite this, the Xeon W-11855M has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon W-11855M outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 5600G thanks to a 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.