AMD Ryzen 5 1600X vs Intel Xeon E5-2690 v2

Ryzen 5 1600X vs Xeon E5-2690 v2 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2690 v2 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 E5-2690 v2 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 1600X. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2690 v2 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 slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2690 v2. A Ryzen 5 1600X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2690 v2 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.