AMD Ryzen 5 5600H vs Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v2 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

5072 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6603 points

30% slightly better gaming score

5077 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4311 points

5065 points

17% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4176 points

5049 points

20% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

116.70 points

5% slightly higher Blender score

110.36 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5738 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

4379 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1625 points

188% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

564 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5695 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

4332 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1590 points

183% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

561 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

22% slightly higher clock speed

2.7 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

20% slightly higher turbo speed

3.5 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

343rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile

Xeon E5 v2 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December

2013 August

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 E5-2697 v2 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2697 v2 is faster than the Ryzen 5 5600H. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5600H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2697 v2 has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 5600H that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600H. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2697 v2. Also, the Ryzen 5 5600H has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5600H CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2697 v2 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.