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Xeon X5660 vs Ryzen 9 5900X

Xeon X5660 vs Ryzen 9 5900X: game performance, price, value, and specification comparison. Select comparison game parameters.

Key Differences

In short — Ryzen 9 5900X outperforms Xeon X5660 on the selected game parameters. We do not have the prices of both CPUs to compare value. The better performing Ryzen 9 5900X is 3887 days newer than Xeon X5660.

Advantages of Xeon X5660

  • Consumes up to 10% less energy than AMD Ryzen 9 5900X - 95 vs 105 Watts

Advantages of Ryzen 9 5900X

  • Performs up to 27% better in Sea of Thieves than Xeon X5660 - 260 vs 204 FPS
  • Can execute more multi-threaded tasks simultaneously than Intel Xeon X5660 - 24 vs 12 threads
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Sea of Thieves

Sea of Thieves

Resolution

1920 x 1080

Game Graphics

Mythical

Intel Xeon X5660 Logo
Xeon X5660

Server/Workstation • Mar 16th, 2010


FPS

204

78%

Value, £/FPS

Price, £

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X Logo
Ryzen 9 5900X

Desktop • Nov 5th, 2020


FPS

260

100%

Value, £/FPS

£0.78/FPS

100%

Price, £

£204

100%

FPS and Value Winner

AMD Ryzen™ 9 5900X Desktop Processor

Buy for £204 on Amazon

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Resolution

1920 x 1080

Game Graphics

Mythical

Intel Xeon X5660 Logo
Xeon X5660

Server/Workstation • Mar 16th, 2010

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X Logo
Ryzen 9 5900X

Desktop • Nov 5th, 2020

Geekbench 5 Benchmarks

Intel Xeon X5660 Logo
Xeon X5660

Server/Workstation • Mar 16th, 2010


Single-Core

461

21%

Multi-Core

2189

18%

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X Logo
Ryzen 9 5900X

Desktop • Nov 5th, 2020


Single-Core

2179

100%

Multi-Core

11883

100%

Intel Xeon X5660 Logo

Xeon X5660

vs
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X Logo

Ryzen 9 5900X

Mar 16th, 2010Release Date
Nov 5th, 2020
XeonCollectionRyzen 9
Westmere-EPCodenameVermeer
Intel Socket 1366SocketAMD Socket AM4
Server
Segment
Desktop
6Cores
12
12Threads
24
2.8 GHzBase Clock Speed
3.7 GHz
3.2 GHzTurbo Clock Speed
4.8 GHz
95 W
TDP105 W
32 nmProcess Size
7 nm
21.0xMultiplier
37.0x
NoneIntegrated GraphicsNone
NoOverclockable
Yes

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