AMD Ryzen 5 1600 vs Intel Xeon E5-2640 v4

Ryzen 5 1600 vs Xeon E5-2640 v4 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 1600 beats the Xeon E5-2640 v4 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2640 v4 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2640 v4 has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 1600 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 1600. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2640 v4. Also, the Ryzen 5 1600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 1600 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2640 v4 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 1600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.