AMD Ryzen 5 5600X vs Intel Xeon E3-1226 v3

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 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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Intel Xeon E3-1226 v3

Price

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$ 224.25

$ 99.00

$ 125.25 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6410 points

177% significantly better overall score

2307 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8714 points

105% significantly better gaming score

4249 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5668 points

221% significantly better multitasking score

1762 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5487 points

224% significantly better heavy workload score

1691 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

155.16 points

237% significantly higher Blender score

45.99 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8541 points

201% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2832 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2046 points

134% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

871 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8665 points

163% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

3291 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2110 points

82% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1157 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

12% slightly higher clock speed

3.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

24% slightly higher turbo speed

3.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

29% slightly lower TDP

84 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

25% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

300% significantly more supported memory

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

226th of 1,089

658th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Xeon E3 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2014 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 5 5600X vs Xeon E3-1226 v3 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5600X is faster than the Xeon E3-1226 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1226 v3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 5600X has significantly more cores than the Xeon E3-1226 v3. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600X has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Xeon E3-1226 v3. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1226 v3. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E3-1226 v3. Also, the Ryzen 5 5600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5600X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E3-1226 v3 CPU because of its slightly 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 5600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.