Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5600

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 14 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 5 5600

Price

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$ 189.95

$ 135.32

$ 54.63 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5393 points

6267 points

16% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4919 points

8333 points

69% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5546 points

5604 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5592 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

5431 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

138.77 points

150.92 points

8% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8196 points

8330 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

703 points

1980 points

181% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6085 points

8600 points

41% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

833 points

2052 points

146% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

133% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

133% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2 GHz

3.50 GHz

75% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3 GHz

4.4 GHz

46% significantly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

120 W

65 W

84% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

305th of 1,089

237th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2683 v3 vs Ryzen 5 5600 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 5600 performs better than the Xeon E5-2683 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2683 v3 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2683 v3 has significantly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 5600 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2683 v3. Also, the Ryzen 5 5600 has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5600 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2683 v3 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 E5-2683 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.