AMD Ryzen 5 1600X vs Intel Xeon E5-2640 v4

Ryzen 5 1600X vs Xeon E5-2640 v4 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2640 v4 beats the Ryzen 5 1600X in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 1600X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2640 v4 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 1600X. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2640 v4 has 10 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 1600X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 1600X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1600X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2640 v4. Also, the Ryzen 5 1600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2640 v4 outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 1600X thanks to a slightly 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 5 1600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.