AMD Ryzen 5 1600 vs Intel Xeon E5-2695 v2

Ryzen 5 1600 vs Xeon E5-2695 v2 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2695 v2 beats the Ryzen 5 1600 in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 1600 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2695 v2 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 1600. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2695 v2 has 12 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 1600. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 1600. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 1600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2695 v2. Also, the Ryzen 5 1600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 1600 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2695 v2 CPU because of its significantly 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.