Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5560U

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 12 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

5072 points
4% slightly better overall score
4837 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5077 points
6909 points
36% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5065 points
20% slightly better multitasking score
4216 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5049 points
23% slightly better heavy workload score
4083 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

110.36 points
7% slightly higher Blender score
103.14 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4332 points
6293 points
45% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

561 points
1663 points
196% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
100% significantly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
100% significantly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.7 GHz
17% slightly higher clock speed
2.30 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz
4 GHz
14% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W
15 W
766% 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

358th of 1,118
378th of 1,118

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v2 Family
Ryzen 5 Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 August
2021 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
-

Xeon E5-2697 v2 vs Ryzen 5 5560U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2697 v2 is faster than the Ryzen 5 5560U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5560U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2697 v2 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5560U has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5560U. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2697 v2 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 5560U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5560U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5560U outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2697 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 E5-2697 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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