AMD Ryzen 5 2600X vs Intel Xeon E5-2673 v3

Ryzen 5 2600X vs Xeon E5-2673 v3 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2673 v3 is faster than the Ryzen 5 2600X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 2600X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2673 v3 has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 2600X that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 2600X. A Ryzen 5 2600X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2673 v3 CPU because of its slightly 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 2600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.