Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5560U

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 12 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

5940 points

22% slightly better overall score

4837 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5278 points

6909 points

30% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6174 points

46% significantly better multitasking score

4216 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6288 points

54% significantly better heavy workload score

4083 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

163.08 points

58% significantly higher Blender score

103.14 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6340 points

0.75% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

6293 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

996 points

1663 points

66% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz

8% slightly higher clock speed

2.30 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.3 GHz

4 GHz

21% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

120 W

15 W

700% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

268th of 1,118

378th of 1,118

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Ryzen 5 Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

2021 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2680 v3 vs Ryzen 5 5560U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2680 v3 performs better than the Ryzen 5 5560U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5560U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2680 v3 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5560U has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5560U. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2680 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to 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 E5-2680 v3 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 E5-2680 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.