AMD Ryzen 5 2600 vs Intel Xeon E5-1660 v4

Ryzen 5 2600 vs Xeon E5-1660 v4 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-1660 v4 beats the Ryzen 5 2600 in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 2600 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-1660 v4 has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 2600. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1660 v4 has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 2600. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 2600. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 2600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-1660 v4. Also, the Ryzen 5 2600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 2600 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1660 v4 CPU because of its significantly 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 2600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.