Intel Xeon E5-2660 vs AMD Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition

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

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Intel Xeon E5-2660

AMD Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3233 points

3249 points

0.49% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3840 points

4467 points

16% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3029 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

2880 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2968 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

2792 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

60.42 points

104.16 points

72% significantly higher Blender 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

2.2 GHz

3.30 GHz

50% significantly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

507th of 1,089

505th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2660 vs Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition performs better than the Xeon E5-2660. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2660 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2660 has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2660 has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2660.

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 E5-2660 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.