AMD Ryzen 5 5600X vs Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 224.25
$ 189.95
$ 34.30 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6410 points
151% significantly better overall score
2544 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8714 points
114% significantly better gaming score
4070 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5668 points
171% significantly better multitasking score
2091 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5487 points
173% significantly better heavy workload score
2009 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

155.16 points
289% significantly higher Blender score
39.80 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
49% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
49% significantly more threads
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz
12% slightly higher clock speed
3.30 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
200% significantly more L2 cache
1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
300% significantly more L3 cache
8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

226th of 1,089
618th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Ryzen 5 5600X vs Xeon E3-1230 V2 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5600X is faster than the Xeon E3-1230 V2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1230 V2 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 5 5600X has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Xeon E3-1230 V2 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1230 V2. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1230 V2. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 5600X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon E3-1230 V2. The Ryzen 5 5600X also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 5600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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