Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5600H. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Mobile
• Family
  Intel Xeon E5 AMD Ryzen
• Generation
  6 4
• CPU group
  Intel Xeon E5 v4 AMD Ryzen 5000H
• Predecessor
  Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3 --

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Frequency
  2.40 GHz 3.30 GHz
• CPU Cores
  14 6
• Turbo (1 Core)
  3.30 GHz 4.20 GHz
• CPU Threads
  28 12
• Hyperthreading
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Core architecture
  normal normal

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  no iGPU AMD Radeon 6 Graphics (Renoir)
• GPU frequency
  1.60 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  6
• Shader
  384
• Max. GPU Memory
  -- 2 GB
• Max. displays
  3
• Generation
  9
• DirectX Version
  12
• Technology
  7 nm
• Release date
  Q1/2020

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• h264
  No Decode / Encode
• VP9
  No Decode / Encode
• VP8
  No Decode / Encode
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  No Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  No Decode
• JPEG
  No Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Ryzen 5 5600H and Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-2400 DDR4-3200
• Max. Memory
  64 GB
• ECC
  Yes No
• Memory channels
  4 2
• PCIe version
  3.0 3.0
• PCIe lanes
  40 12

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 and AMD Ryzen 5 5600H to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  120 W 45 W
• TDP up
  -- 54 W
• TDP down
  -- 35 W
• Tjunction max.
  -- 105 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 and Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d AMD-V, SVM
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• L2-Cache
  -- 4.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  35.00 MB 16.00 MB
• Architecture
  Broadwell E Cezanne (Zen 3)
• Technology
  14 nm 7 nm
• Socket
  LGA 2011-3 FP6
• Release date
  Q1/2016 Q2/2021