AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX vs Intel Xeon E5-2696 v3

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Mobile 8 core CPU vs Intel 18 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

6495 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7696 points

34% slightly better gaming score

5724 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5820 points

6803 points

16% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5710 points

6991 points

22% slightly better heavy workload score

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3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6544 points

6829 points

4% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

175.52 points

231.70 points

32% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7263 points

7392 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1794 points

69% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1060 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7587 points

8186 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1845 points

62% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1134 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

125% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

125% significantly more threads

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

222% significantly lower TDP

145 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

239th of 1,089

221st 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 E5-2696 v3 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2696 v3 performs better than the Ryzen 9 5900HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5900HX has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2696 v3 has significantly more cores with 18 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 5900HX has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 5900HX. A Ryzen 9 5900HX CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2696 v3 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5900HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.