AMD Ryzen 5 1600X vs Intel Xeon E5-2696 v3

Ryzen 5 1600X vs Xeon E5-2696 v3 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 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 E5-2696 v3 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 1600X. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 has 18 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 1600X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 1600X. A Ryzen 5 1600X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2696 v3 CPU because of its significantly 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.