AMD Ryzen 5 5600H vs Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 12 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

5940 points

22% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6603 points

25% slightly better gaming score

5278 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4311 points

6174 points

43% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4176 points

6288 points

50% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

116.70 points

163.08 points

39% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5738 points

6648 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1625 points

72% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

941 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5695 points

6340 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1590 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

996 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

32% slightly higher clock speed

2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

27% slightly higher turbo speed

3.3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

166% significantly lower TDP

120 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

358th of 1,089

254th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December

2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

DDR4-1600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 5 5600H vs Xeon E5-2680 v3 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5600H beats the Xeon E5-2680 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2680 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2680 v3 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5600H has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600H. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5600H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2680 v3. Also, the Ryzen 5 5600H has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5600H CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2680 v3 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 5600H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.