Intel Xeon E5-2643 v2 vs AMD Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v2 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

4657 points
43% significantly better overall score
3249 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5043 points
12% slightly better gaming score
4467 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4542 points
57% significantly better multitasking score
2880 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4510 points
61% significantly better heavy workload score
2792 points

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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
6% slightly higher clock speed
3.30 GHz

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

373rd of 1,089
505th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v2 Family
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 August
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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Xeon E5-2643 v2 vs Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition beats the Xeon E5-2643 v2 in overall performance. 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 slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition.

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 E5-2643 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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