Intel Xeon E5-2640 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5600GT

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5000 Series 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 5 5600GT

Price

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$ 63.20

$ 86.28 significantly less expensive

$ 149.48

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5079 points

6416 points

26% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5205 points

8665 points

66% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5069 points

5694 points

12% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5131 points

5516 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

113.01 points

139.36 points

23% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5384 points

7974 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1040 points

2039 points

96% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz

4.59 GHz

76% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz

4.6 GHz

35% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

90 W

65 W

38% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

341st of 1,089

225th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

2024 January

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 E5-2640 v3 vs Ryzen 5 5600GT comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5600GT is faster than the Xeon E5-2640 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2640 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2640 v3 has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5600GT has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600GT. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600GT has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2640 v3. Also, the Ryzen 5 5600GT has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5600GT outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2640 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 E5-2640 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.