AMD Ryzen 5 5600H vs Intel Xeon E5-1620

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 Family 4 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

4862 points

77% significantly better overall score

2735 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6603 points

54% significantly better gaming score

4274 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4311 points

89% significantly better multitasking score

2280 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4176 points

90% significantly better heavy workload score

2192 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

116.70 points

186% significantly higher Blender score

40.70 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5738 points

151% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2284 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1625 points

174% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

592 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5695 points

153% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2244 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1590 points

160% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

611 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

3.6 GHz

9% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

10% slightly higher turbo speed

3.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

188% significantly lower TDP

130 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

358th of 1,089

582nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile

Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December

2012 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 5 5600H vs Xeon E5-1620 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5600H beats the Xeon E5-1620 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1620 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600H has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Xeon E5-1620 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-1620. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-1620 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 5600H. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5600H has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5600H CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1620 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 5600H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.