AMD Ryzen 3 1200 vs Intel Xeon X5650

Ryzen 3 1200 vs Xeon X5650 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 3 1200 beats the Xeon X5650 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon X5650 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon X5650 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Ryzen 3 1200 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 1200. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 3 1200 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon X5650. Also, the Ryzen 3 1200 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 3 1200 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon X5650 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 3 1200 has slightly more L2 cache than the Xeon X5650. Despite this, the Xeon X5650 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 3 1200.

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. For instance, the Ryzen 3 1200 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.