Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5600

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v4 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 1016.08
$ 135.32
$ 880.76 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6682 points
6% slightly better overall score
6267 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6240 points
8333 points
33% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6819 points
21% slightly better multitasking score
5604 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6860 points
26% slightly better heavy workload score
5431 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

200.70 points
32% slightly higher Blender score
150.92 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7768 points
8330 points
7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1069 points
1980 points
85% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8934 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
8600 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1072 points
2052 points
91% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

14
133% significantly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

28
133% significantly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz
3.50 GHz
34% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz
4.4 GHz
25% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

135 W
65 W
107% 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

211th of 1,089
237th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v4 Family
Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 February
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 E5-2690 v4 vs Ryzen 5 5600 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 5600 performs better than the Xeon E5-2690 v4. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2690 v4 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2690 v4 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5600. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2690 v4 has 14 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5600. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2690 v4. Also, the Ryzen 5 5600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5600 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2690 v4 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 E5-2690 v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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