AMD Ryzen 5 5600X vs Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 14 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3

Price

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$ 224.25

$ 189.95

$ 34.30 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6410 points

18% slightly better overall score

5393 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8714 points

77% significantly better gaming score

4919 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5668 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

5546 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5487 points

5592 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

155.16 points

11% slightly higher Blender score

138.77 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8541 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

8196 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2046 points

191% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

703 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8665 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

6085 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2110 points

153% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

833 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

85% significantly higher clock speed

2 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

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

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

768 GiB

499% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

226th of 1,089

305th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2014 August

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 E5-2683 v3 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5600X is faster than the Xeon E5-2683 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2683 v3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2683 v3 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5600X. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2683 v3 has 14 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5600X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5600X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2683 v3. Also, the Ryzen 5 5600X has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5600X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2683 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 5600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.