AMD Ryzen 3 3300X vs Intel Xeon E5-2690 v2

Ryzen 3 3300X vs Xeon E5-2690 v2 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2690 v2 performs better than the Ryzen 3 3300X. 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 E5-2690 v2 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 3 3300X. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2690 v2 has 10 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 3 3300X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 3300X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 3 3300X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2690 v2. Also, the Ryzen 3 3300X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 3 3300X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2690 v2 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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. Indeed, the Ryzen 3 3300X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.