AMD Ryzen 5 5600U vs Intel Xeon E5-2696 v3

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core CPU vs Intel 18 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

6495 points

55% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5656 points

5724 points

1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3723 points

6803 points

82% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3608 points

6991 points

93% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

100.46 points

231.70 points

130% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5751 points

7392 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1605 points

51% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1060 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5709 points

8186 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1617 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1134 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

200% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

200% significantly more threads

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

866% significantly lower TDP

145 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

422nd of 1,089

221st 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 E5-2696 v3 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 is faster than the Ryzen 5 5600U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5600U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2696 v3 has significantly more cores with 18 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 5600U that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600U. A Ryzen 5 5600U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2696 v3 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.