Intel Xeon E5-2696 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 5 8600G

Compare Intel 18 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 8000 Series 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

6495 points
7604 points
17% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5724 points
10588 points
84% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6803 points
2% slightly better multitasking score
6642 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6991 points
8% slightly better heavy workload score
6422 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6829 points
10% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
6178 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

231.70 points
33% slightly higher Blender score
173.75 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8186 points
10810 points
32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1134 points
2486 points
119% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

18
200% significantly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

36
200% significantly more threads
12

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

145 W
65 W
123% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

221st of 1,089
161st of 1,089

Family

The product line

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Ryzen 8000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2024 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

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Yes

Xeon E5-2696 v3 vs Ryzen 5 8600G specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 8600G is faster than the Xeon E5-2696 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2696 v3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 8600G. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 has 18 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 8600G. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 8600G. The Ryzen 5 8600G outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2696 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 E5-2696 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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