Intel Xeon E5-2620 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 6 core CPU vs AMD 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

3203 points
3249 points
1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4260 points
4467 points
4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2869 points
2880 points
0.38% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2793 points
0.04% slightly better heavy workload score
2792 points

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Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

75.06 points
104.16 points
38% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
Identical
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz
3.30 GHz
37% slightly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

510th of 1,089
505th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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Xeon E5-2620 v3 vs Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition performs better than the Xeon E5-2620 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2620 v3 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2620 v3.

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 E5-2620 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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