AMD Ryzen 5 2600X vs Intel Xeon E3-1241 v3

Ryzen 5 2600X vs Xeon E3-1241 v3 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 2600X beats the Xeon E3-1241 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1241 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 2600X has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Xeon E3-1241 v3 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1241 v3. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 2600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1241 v3. Also, the Ryzen 5 2600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E3-1241 v3 outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 2600X thanks to a 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 2600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.