AMD Ryzen 5 1600X vs Intel Xeon E5-2650 v2

Ryzen 5 1600X vs Xeon E5-2650 v2 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 1600X beats the Xeon E5-2650 v2 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2650 v2 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2650 v2 has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 1600X. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2650 v2 has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 1600X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 1600X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 1600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2650 v2. Also, the Ryzen 5 1600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 1600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.