AMD Ryzen 5 1600X vs Intel Xeon E5-2660 v3

Ryzen 5 1600X vs Xeon E5-2660 v3 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 1600X beats the Xeon E5-2660 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2660 v3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2660 v3 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 1600X. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2660 v3 has 10 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 1600X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 1600X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 1600X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2660 v3. A Ryzen 5 1600X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2660 v3 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.