Intel Xeon E5-2698 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5600GT

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 16 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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AMD Ryzen 5 5600GT

Price

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$ 729.95

$ 149.48

$ 580.47 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6109 points

6416 points

5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5454 points

8665 points

58% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6350 points

11% slightly better multitasking score

5694 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6447 points

16% slightly better heavy workload score

5516 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

190.75 points

36% slightly higher Blender score

139.36 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7350 points

7974 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1043 points

2039 points

95% 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

2.3 GHz

4.59 GHz

99% 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

135 W

65 W

107% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

245th of 1,089

225th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

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 E5-2698 v3 vs Ryzen 5 5600GT specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5600GT is faster than the Xeon E5-2698 v3. 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 5600GT. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2698 v3 has 16 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 E5-2698 v3. Also, the Ryzen 5 5600GT has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5600GT 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.