AMD Ryzen 5 6600H vs Intel Xeon E5-2687W v4

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 12 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5291 points

6031 points

13% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7096 points

16% slightly better gaming score

6083 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4729 points

5984 points

26% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4589 points

5939 points

29% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

129.09 points

185.69 points

43% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7501 points

7665 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1825 points

67% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1092 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.30 GHz

9% slightly higher clock speed

3.00 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz

28% slightly higher turbo speed

3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

255% significantly lower TDP

160 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

Identical

3 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

30 MiB

87% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

311th of 1,089

249th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile

Xeon E5 v4 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5

DDR4-1600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 5 6600H vs Xeon E5-2687W v4 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2687W v4 beats the Ryzen 5 6600H in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 6600H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2687W v4 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 6600H has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 6600H. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 6600H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2687W v4. Also, the Ryzen 5 6600H has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 6600H CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2687W v4 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Xeon E5-2687W v4 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 6600H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.