AMD Ryzen 5 5600U vs Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 14 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
6682 points
59% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5656 points
6240 points
10% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3723 points
6819 points
83% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3608 points
6860 points
90% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

100.46 points
200.70 points
99% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5751 points
7768 points
35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1605 points
50% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1069 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5709 points
8934 points
56% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1617 points
50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1072 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
14
133% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
28
133% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz
2.6 GHz
13% slightly higher clock speed

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

15 W
800% significantly lower TDP
135 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

422nd of 1,089
211th 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

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 5 5600U vs Xeon E5-2690 v4 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2690 v4 performs better than the Ryzen 5 5600U. 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 E5-2690 v4 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5600U. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2690 v4 has 14 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5600U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600U. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2690 v4 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to 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 E5-2690 v4 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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