AMD Ryzen 5 5600H vs Intel Xeon E5-2689

Ryzen 5 5600H vs Xeon E5-2689 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5600H is faster than the Xeon E5-2689. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2689 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2689 has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5600H. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2689 has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5600H. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600H. A Ryzen 5 5600H CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2689 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.