Intel Xeon W-2155 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5600

Compare Intel Xeon W 10 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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AMD Ryzen 5 5600

Price

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$ 5256.00

$ 135.32

$ 5120.68 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6561 points

4% slightly better overall score

6267 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7452 points

8333 points

11% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6257 points

11% slightly better multitasking score

5604 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6180 points

13% slightly better heavy workload score

5431 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

180.80 points

19% slightly higher Blender score

150.92 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8684 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

8330 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1373 points

1980 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8711 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

8600 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1383 points

2052 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

66% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

3.50 GHz

6% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

4.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

140 W

65 W

115% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

216th of 1,089

237th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon W

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 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 W-2155 vs Ryzen 5 5600 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon W-2155 beats the Ryzen 5 5600 in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5600 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon W-2155 has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 5600 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon W-2155. Despite this, the Xeon W-2155 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5600 outputs less heat than Xeon W-2155 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 W-2155 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.