Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5600GT

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 16 core CPU vs AMD 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 5 5600GT

Price

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$ 1277.90

$ 149.48

$ 1128.42 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8324 points

29% slightly better overall score

6416 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6186 points

8665 points

40% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9116 points

60% significantly better multitasking score

5694 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9598 points

74% significantly better heavy workload score

5516 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

224.42 points

61% significantly higher Blender score

139.36 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8264 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

7974 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1062 points

2039 points

91% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

166% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

166% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.60 GHz

4.59 GHz

76% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

4.6 GHz

27% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

145 W

65 W

123% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

33% slightly more L2 cache

3 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

40 MiB

150% significantly more L3 cache

16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

134th 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 E5-2697A v4 vs Ryzen 5 5600GT comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 is faster than the Ryzen 5 5600GT. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5600GT has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5600GT has 6 cores. 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 E5-2697A v4. In terms of cache, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 5600GT. The Xeon E5-2697A v4 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 E5-2697A v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.