AMD Ryzen 5 1600X vs Intel Xeon E5-2689

Ryzen 5 1600X vs Xeon E5-2689 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 1600X beats the Xeon E5-2689 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2689 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2689 has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 1600X has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 1600X. A Ryzen 5 1600X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2689 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.