AMD Ryzen 5 6600H vs Intel Xeon E5-2658A v3

Comparative analysis of AMD Ryzen 5 6600H and Intel Xeon E5-2658A v3 processors for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Performance, Memory, Compatibility, Peripherals, Advanced Technologies, Virtualization, Security & Reliability. Benchmark processor performance analysis: PassMark - Single thread mark, PassMark - CPU mark, Geekbench 4 - Single Core, Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Ryzen 5 6600H

  • Around 55% higher clock speed: 4.5 GHz vs 2.90 GHz
  • Around 4% higher maximum core temperature: 95 °C vs 91
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 6 nm vs 22 nm
  • 3x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 105 Watt
  • Around 89% better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 3187 vs 1688
  • Around 26% better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 18724 vs 14879
Specifications (specs)
Maximum frequency 4.5 GHz vs 2.90 GHz
Maximum core temperature 95 °C vs 91
Manufacturing process technology 6 nm vs 22 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt vs 105 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - Single thread mark 3187 vs 1688
PassMark - CPU mark 18724 vs 14879

Reasons to consider the Intel Xeon E5-2658A v3

  • 6 more cores, run more applications at once: 12 vs 6
  • 12 more threads: 24 vs 12
Number of cores 12 vs 6
Number of threads 24 vs 12
Max number of CPUs in a configuration 2 vs 1

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: AMD Ryzen 5 6600H
CPU 2: Intel Xeon E5-2658A v3

PassMark - Single thread mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
3187
1688
PassMark - CPU mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
18724
14879
Name AMD Ryzen 5 6600H Intel Xeon E5-2658A v3
PassMark - Single thread mark 3187 1688
PassMark - CPU mark 18724 14879
Geekbench 4 - Single Core 2959
Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core 20447

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Ryzen 5 6600H Intel Xeon E5-2658A v3

Essentials

Architecture codename Zen 3+ Haswell
Launch date Jan 2022 Q1'15
Place in performance rating 511 504
Processor Number E5-2658AV3
Series Intel® Xeon® Processor E5 v3 Family
Status Launched
Vertical segment Embedded

Performance

Base frequency 3.3 GHz 2.20 GHz
Die size 208 mm²
L1 cache 384 KB
L2 cache 3 MB
L3 cache 16 MB
Manufacturing process technology 6 nm 22 nm
Maximum core temperature 95 °C 91
Maximum frequency 4.5 GHz 2.90 GHz
Number of cores 6 12
Number of threads 12 24
Unlocked
64 bit support
Bus Speed 9.6 GT/s QPI
Number of QPI Links 2
VID voltage range 0.65V–1.30V

Memory

ECC memory support
Max memory channels 2 4
Supported memory types DDR5-4800 DDR4 1600/1866/2133
Maximum memory bandwidth 68 GB/s
Maximum memory size 768 GB

Compatibility

Max number of CPUs in a configuration 1 2
Sockets supported FP7 FCLGA2011-3
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt 105 Watt
Low Halogen Options Available
Package Size 52.5mm x 45mm

Peripherals

Max number of PCIe lanes 20 40
PCI Express revision 4.0 3.0
PCIe configurations x4, x8, x16
Scalability 2S

Advanced Technologies

Enhanced Virus Protection (EVP)
Fused Multiply-Add 3 (FMA3)
Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX)
Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (AVX2)
Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® technology
Idle States
Instruction set extensions Intel® AVX2
Intel 64
Intel® AES New Instructions
Intel® Demand Based Switching
Intel® Flex Memory Access
Intel® Hyper-Threading technology
Intel® TSX-NI
Intel® Turbo Boost technology
Intel® vPro™ Platform Eligibility
Physical Address Extensions (PAE) 46-bit
Thermal Monitoring

Virtualization

AMD Virtualization (AMD-V™)
Intel® Virtualization Technology (VT-x)
Intel® Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (VT-d)
Intel® VT-x with Extended Page Tables (EPT)

Security & Reliability

Execute Disable Bit (EDB)
Intel® Identity Protection technology
Intel® OS Guard
Intel® Secure Key technology
Intel® Trusted Execution technology (TXT)