AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX vs Intel Xeon E5-2673 v4

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Mobile 8 core CPU vs Intel 20 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

6264 points

6502 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7696 points

47% significantly better gaming score

5216 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5820 points

6982 points

19% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5710 points

7212 points

26% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

175.52 points

243.49 points

38% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7263 points

10534 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1794 points

145% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

731 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7587 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

7218 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1845 points

93% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

952 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

150% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

150% significantly more threads

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

200% significantly lower TDP

135 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

239th of 1,089

219th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Ryzen 9 5900HX vs Xeon E5-2673 v4 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 5900HX is faster than the Xeon E5-2673 v4. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2673 v4 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2673 v4 has significantly more cores with 20 cores compared to the Ryzen 9 5900HX that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 5900HX. A Ryzen 9 5900HX CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2673 v4 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 5900HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.