Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5560U

Compare Intel 10 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

4823 points
4837 points
0.29% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5321 points
6909 points
29% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4658 points
10% slightly better multitasking score
4216 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4614 points
13% slightly better heavy workload score
4083 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

152.03 points
47% significantly higher Blender score
103.14 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

10
66% significantly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

20
66% significantly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.90 GHz
26% slightly higher clock speed
2.30 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2.5 MiB
3 MiB
20% slightly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

25 MiB
212% significantly more L3 cache
8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

363rd of 1,089
361st of 1,089

Family

The product line

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Ryzen 5 Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2021 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

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No

Xeon E5-2666 v3 vs Ryzen 5 5560U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 is faster than the Ryzen 5 5560U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5560U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 5560U that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5560U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5560U. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 5560U has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon E5-2666 v3. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 5560U.

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 E5-2666 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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