AMD Ryzen 5 5600X vs Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 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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Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4

Price

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$ 224.25

$ 211.95

$ 12.30 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6410 points

5% slightly better overall score

6066 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8714 points

52% significantly better gaming score

5717 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5668 points

6174 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5487 points

6198 points

12% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

155.16 points

195.63 points

26% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8541 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

6195 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2046 points

107% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

988 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8665 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

6901 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2110 points

105% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1027 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

133% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

133% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

54% significantly higher clock speed

2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

39% slightly higher turbo speed

3.3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

84% significantly lower TDP

120 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

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

226th of 1,089

247th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Xeon E5 v4 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2016 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-1600

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 E5-2680 v4 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2680 v4 beats the Ryzen 5 5600X in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5600X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2680 v4 has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5600X has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2680 v4. Also, the Ryzen 5 5600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5600X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2680 v4 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 5600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.