Ryzen 5 5600H vs Xeon E7520

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Primary details

Comparing Xeon E7520 and Ryzen 5 5600H processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in performance rankingnot rated669
Place by popularitynot in top-10044
Market segmentServerLaptop
Seriesno dataAMD Cezanne (Zen 3, Ryzen 5000)
Architecture codenameno dataCezanne-H (Zen 3)
Release date1 January 2010 (14 years ago)12 January 2021 (3 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Xeon E7520 and Ryzen 5 5600H basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.

Physical coresno data6 (Hexa-Core)
Threadsno data12
Base clock speedno data3.3 GHz
Boost clock speedno data4.2 GHz
L1 cacheno data384 KB
L2 cacheno data3 MB
L3 cacheno data16 MB
Chip lithographyno data7 nm
Maximum core temperature70 °Cno data
64 bit support-+
Windows 11 compatibility-+
Unlocked multiplierNoNo

Compatibility

Information on Xeon E7520 and Ryzen 5 5600H compatibility with other computer components: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Socketno dataFP6
Power consumption (TDP)95 Watt45 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Xeon E7520 and Ryzen 5 5600H. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataMMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4A, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, BMI2, ABM, FMA, ADX, SMEP, SMAP, SMT, CPB, AES-NI, RDRAND, RDSEED, SHA, SME
AES-NIno data+
FMAno data+
AVXno data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Xeon E7520 and Ryzen 5 5600H are enumerated here.

AMD-Vno data+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Xeon E7520 and Ryzen 5 5600H. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesno dataDDR4

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardno dataAMD Radeon RX Vega 7

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 January 2010 12 January 2021
Power consumption (TDP) 95 Watt 45 Watt

Ryzen 5 5600H has an age advantage of 11 years, and 111.1% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Xeon E7520 and Ryzen 5 5600H. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Xeon E7520 is a server/workstation processor while Ryzen 5 5600H is a notebook one.


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