Intel Xeon E5-2690 v2 vs AMD Ryzen 5 6600H

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 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

5073 points
5291 points
4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5423 points
7096 points
30% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4932 points
4% slightly better multitasking score
4729 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4878 points
6% slightly better heavy workload score
4589 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

106.45 points
129.09 points
21% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4225 points
7501 points
77% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

593 points
1825 points
207% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

3 GHz
3.30 GHz
10% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz
4.5 GHz
25% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W
45 W
188% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
100% significantly more memory channels
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

342nd of 1,089
311th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v2 Family
Ryzen 5 Mobile

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
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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Xeon E5-2690 v2 vs Ryzen 5 6600H specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 6600H performs better than the Xeon E5-2690 v2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2690 v2 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2690 v2 has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 6600H has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 6600H. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 6600H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2690 v2. Also, the Ryzen 5 6600H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 6600H outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2690 v2 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 E5-2690 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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