AMD Ryzen 5 2600 vs Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2

Ryzen 5 2600 vs Xeon E3-1230 V2 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 2600 beats the Xeon E3-1230 V2 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1230 V2 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 2600 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Xeon E3-1230 V2 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1230 V2. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 2600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1230 V2. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 2600 has more L2 cache than the Xeon E3-1230 V2. The Ryzen 5 2600 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 2600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.