Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5600GT

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 14 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5000 Series 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
$ 149.48
$ 866.60 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6682 points
4% slightly better overall score
6416 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6240 points
8665 points
38% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6819 points
19% slightly better multitasking score
5694 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6860 points
24% slightly better heavy workload score
5516 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

200.70 points
44% significantly higher Blender score
139.36 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8934 points
12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
7974 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1072 points
2039 points
90% 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
4.59 GHz
76% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz
4.6 GHz
31% 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
225th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v4 Family
Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 February
2024 January

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 5600GT specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2690 v4 is faster than the Ryzen 5 5600GT. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5600GT has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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 5600GT. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2690 v4 has 14 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5600GT. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600GT. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5600GT has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2690 v4. Also, the Ryzen 5 5600GT has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5600GT 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.

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 E5-2690 v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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