AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS vs Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Mobile 8 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 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

6179 points

4% slightly better overall score

5940 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7639 points

44% significantly better gaming score

5278 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5707 points

6174 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5585 points

6288 points

12% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

160.71 points

163.08 points

1% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz

20% slightly higher clock speed

2.5 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

35 W

242% significantly lower TDP

120 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

240th of 1,089

254th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Mobile

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December

2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

DDR4-1600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 9 5900HS vs Xeon E5-2680 v3 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 5900HS is faster than the Xeon E5-2680 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2680 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2680 v3 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 5900HS has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 5900HS. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 5900HS has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2680 v3. Also, the Ryzen 9 5900HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 5900HS CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2680 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 9 5900HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.