AMD Ryzen 5 5600X vs Intel Xeon E5-2640

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 Family 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2640

Price

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$ 224.25

$ 65.00

$ 159.25 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6410 points

124% significantly better overall score

2849 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8714 points

128% significantly better gaming score

3820 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5668 points

123% significantly better multitasking score

2537 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5487 points

122% significantly better heavy workload score

2462 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

155.16 points

227% significantly higher Blender score

47.31 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8541 points

154% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

3360 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2046 points

266% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

558 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8665 points

282% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2265 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2110 points

368% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

450 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

47% significantly higher clock speed

2.50 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

53% significantly higher turbo speed

3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

46% significantly lower TDP

95 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

100% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

384 GiB

200% significantly more supported memory

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

1.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB

113% significantly more L3 cache

15 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

226th of 1,089

560th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2012 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR3-1066

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 E5-2640 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5600X is faster than the Xeon E5-2640. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2640 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2640. Also, the Ryzen 5 5600X has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5600X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2640 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 5600X has more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-2640. 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.