AMD Ryzen 5 5600U vs Intel Xeon E5-2650 v4

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v4 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

4180 points

4970 points

18% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5656 points

17% slightly better gaming score

4831 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3723 points

5013 points

34% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3608 points

5022 points

39% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

100.46 points

147.11 points

46% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5751 points

114% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2679 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1605 points

189% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

554 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5709 points

85% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

3070 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1617 points

144% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

661 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

2.3 GHz

4% slightly higher clock speed

2.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

44% significantly higher turbo speed

2.9 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

599% significantly lower TDP

105 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

422nd of 1,089

353rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile

Xeon E5 v4 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December

2016 February

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 5600U vs Xeon E5-2650 v4 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2650 v4 beats the Ryzen 5 5600U in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5600U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2650 v4 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5600U. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2650 v4 has 12 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5600U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2650 v4. Also, the Ryzen 5 5600U has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5600U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2650 v4 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 5600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.