AMD Ryzen 5 5600U vs Intel Xeon E5-2678 v3

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core CPU vs Intel 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

5409 points

29% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5656 points

6% slightly better gaming score

5325 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3723 points

5414 points

45% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3608 points

5392 points

49% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

100.46 points

164.10 points

63% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5751 points

6377 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1605 points

65% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

967 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5709 points

6701 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1617 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1012 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

700% significantly lower TDP

120 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

422nd of 1,089

303rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Ryzen 5 5600U vs Xeon E5-2678 v3 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2678 v3 performs better than the Ryzen 5 5600U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5600U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2678 v3 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5600U has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600U. A Ryzen 5 5600U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2678 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 5600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.