AMD Ryzen 5 1600X vs Intel Xeon Silver 4210R

Ryzen 5 1600X vs Xeon Silver 4210R specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon Silver 4210R performs better than the Ryzen 5 1600X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 1600X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon Silver 4210R has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 1600X has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 1600X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 1600X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon Silver 4210R. A Ryzen 5 1600X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon Silver 4210R CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.