AMD Ryzen 5 5600U vs Intel Xeon E3-1230 v3

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E3 v3 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

4180 points
55% significantly better overall score
2682 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5656 points
30% slightly better gaming score
4326 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3723 points
69% significantly better multitasking score
2196 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3608 points
71% significantly better heavy workload score
2108 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

100.46 points
62% significantly higher Blender score
61.88 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5751 points
56% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
3681 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1605 points
42% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1126 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5709 points
54% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
3699 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1617 points
39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1160 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
49% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
49% significantly more threads
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz
3.3 GHz
43% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
13% slightly higher turbo speed
3.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
433% significantly lower TDP
80 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

441st of 1,126
620th of 1,126

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile
Xeon E3 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December
2013 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 5 5600U vs Xeon E3-1230 v3 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5600U beats the Xeon E3-1230 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1230 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600U has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Xeon E3-1230 v3 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1230 v3. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E3-1230 v3 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 5600U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5600U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5600U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E3-1230 v3 CPU because of its 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 5600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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