Intel Xeon E5-1650 v4 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5600

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 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

4288 points

6267 points

46% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6056 points

8333 points

37% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3725 points

5604 points

50% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3606 points

5431 points

50% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

94.25 points

150.92 points

60% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5425 points

8330 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1136 points

1980 points

74% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5449 points

8600 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1187 points

2052 points

72% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

2% slightly higher clock speed

3.50 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

4.4 GHz

10% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

140 W

65 W

115% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

410th of 1,089

237th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v4 Family

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 May

2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-1650 v4 vs Ryzen 5 5600 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5600 is faster than the Xeon E5-1650 v4. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1650 v4 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-1650 v4 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 5600. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5600 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-1650 v4 thanks to a 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 Xeon E5-1650 v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.