AMD Ryzen 5 1500X vs Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2

Ryzen 5 1500X vs Xeon E5-2696 v2 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2696 v2 is faster than the Ryzen 5 1500X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 1500X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2696 v2 has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 1500X that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 1500X.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1500X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.