AMD Ryzen 5 5600X vs Intel Xeon E5-2699 v3

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 18 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2699 v3

Price

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$ 224.25

$ 305.70 significantly less expensive

$ 529.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6410 points

6700 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8714 points

67% significantly better gaming score

5199 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5668 points

7270 points

28% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5487 points

7597 points

38% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

155.16 points

219.38 points

41% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

200% 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

60% significantly higher clock speed

2.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

27% slightly higher turbo speed

3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

123% significantly lower TDP

145 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

210th 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 E5-2699 v3 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2699 v3 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 E5-2699 v3 has significantly more cores with 18 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5600X has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2699 v3. Also, the Ryzen 5 5600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5600X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2699 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.