Intel Xeon E5-1660 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500H

Compare Intel Xeon E5 Family 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5000 Series 4 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

3673 points
3827 points
4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4854 points
6332 points
30% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3294 points
6% slightly better multitasking score
3095 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3198 points
7% slightly better heavy workload score
2970 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

65.07 points
78.11 points
20% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3040 points
4230 points
39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

618 points
1535 points
148% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
49% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
49% significantly more threads
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz
3.30 GHz
0.03% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz
4.2 GHz
7% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W
45 W
188% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

465th of 1,089
450th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 Family
Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February
2023 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
DDR4-3200

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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Xeon E5-1660 vs Ryzen 5 5500H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5500H beats the Xeon E5-1660 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1660 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-1660 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5500H. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1660 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5500H. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500H. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5500H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-1660. Also, the Ryzen 5 5500H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5500H outputs less heat than Xeon E5-1660 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 E5-1660 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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