Intel Xeon E5-2643 v2 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5560U

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 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

4657 points
4837 points
3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5043 points
6909 points
37% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4542 points
7% slightly better multitasking score
4216 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4510 points
10% slightly better heavy workload score
4083 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3212 points
6293 points
95% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

642 points
1663 points
159% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) 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

3.5 GHz
52% significantly higher clock speed
2.30 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz
4 GHz
5% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W
15 W
766% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
100% significantly more memory channels
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

373rd of 1,089
361st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v2 Family
Ryzen 5 Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 August
2021 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
-

Xeon E5-2643 v2 vs Ryzen 5 5560U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5560U is faster than the Xeon E5-2643 v2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2643 v2 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2643 v2 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 5560U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5560U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5560U outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2643 v2 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2643 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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