Intel Xeon E5-2698 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5600

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 16 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

$ 729.95
$ 135.32
$ 594.63 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6109 points
6267 points
2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5454 points
8333 points
52% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6350 points
13% slightly better multitasking score
5604 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6447 points
18% slightly better heavy workload score
5431 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

190.75 points
26% slightly higher Blender score
150.92 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6221 points
8330 points
33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

950 points
1980 points
108% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7350 points
8600 points
17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1043 points
2052 points
96% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16
166% significantly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

32
166% significantly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz
3.50 GHz
52% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz
4.4 GHz
22% 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

245th of 1,089
237th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family
Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August
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 E5-2698 v3 vs Ryzen 5 5600 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5600 beats the Xeon E5-2698 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2698 v3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2698 v3 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5600. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2698 v3 has 16 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 significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2698 v3. Also, the Ryzen 5 5600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5600 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2698 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 E5-2698 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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