Intel Xeon X5670 vs AMD Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition

Compare Intel Xeon 6 core CPU vs AMD 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

3118 points
3249 points
4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4250 points
4467 points
5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2751 points
2880 points
4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2664 points
2792 points
4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

51.81 points
104.16 points
101% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
Identical
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.93 GHz
3.30 GHz
12% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB
3 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB
16 MiB
33% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

522nd of 1,089
505th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2010 February
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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Xeon X5670 vs Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition beats the Xeon X5670 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon X5670 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon X5670. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition has more L2 cache than the Xeon X5670. The Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition also has slightly more L3 cache.

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 X5670 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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