AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS vs Intel Xeon E5-2698 v3

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Mobile 8 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 16 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
1% slightly better overall score
6109 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7639 points
40% slightly better gaming score
5454 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5707 points
6350 points
11% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5585 points
6447 points
15% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

160.71 points
190.75 points
18% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
16
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
32
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz
30% slightly 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

35 W
285% significantly lower TDP
135 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

240th of 1,089
245th 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 E5-2698 v3 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 5900HS beats the Xeon E5-2698 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2698 v3 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2698 v3 has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Ryzen 9 5900HS that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 5900HS. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 5900HS has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2698 v3. Also, the Ryzen 9 5900HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 5900HS CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2698 v3 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5900HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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