AMD Ryzen 3 3300X vs Intel Xeon E5-2689

Ryzen 3 3300X vs Xeon E5-2689 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2689 beats the Ryzen 3 3300X in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 3 3300X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2689 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 3 3300X. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2689 has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 3 3300X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 3300X. A Ryzen 3 3300X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2689 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 3 3300X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.