AMD Ryzen 5 1600X vs Intel Xeon E5-2699 v3

Ryzen 5 1600X vs Xeon E5-2699 v3 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2699 v3 beats the Ryzen 5 1600X in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 1600X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2699 v3 has significantly more cores with 18 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 1600X that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 1600X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 1600X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2699 v3. A Ryzen 5 1600X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2699 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.