Intel Xeon E5-2620 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 5 9600X

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 5 9600X

Price

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$ 149.95

$ 45.35 significantly less expensive

$ 195.30

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3203 points

8673 points

170% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4260 points

12393 points

190% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2869 points

7498 points

161% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2793 points

7245 points

159% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

75.06 points

233.29 points

210% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4121 points

14957 points

262% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

947 points

3338 points

252% 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

2.4 GHz

3.9 GHz

62% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.2 GHz

5.4 GHz

68% significantly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

85 W

65 W

30% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

510th of 1,089

118th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

2024 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2620 v3 vs Ryzen 5 9600X comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 9600X beats the Xeon E5-2620 v3 in overall performance. 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 9600X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2620 v3. Also, the Ryzen 5 9600X has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 9600X outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2620 v3 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2620 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.