Intel Xeon E5-2698 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 5 6600H

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 16 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

6109 points

15% slightly better overall score

5291 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5454 points

7096 points

30% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6350 points

34% slightly better multitasking score

4729 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6447 points

40% slightly better heavy workload score

4589 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

190.75 points

47% significantly higher Blender score

129.09 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7350 points

7501 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1043 points

1825 points

74% 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

3.30 GHz

43% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

4.5 GHz

25% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

135 W

45 W

200% 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

311th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Ryzen 5 Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2698 v3 vs Ryzen 5 6600H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2698 v3 beats the Ryzen 5 6600H in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 6600H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2698 v3 has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 6600H has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 6600H. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 6600H has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2698 v3. Also, the Ryzen 5 6600H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 6600H 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.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2698 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.