AMD Ryzen 5 2600X vs Intel Xeon E5-2678 v3

Ryzen 5 2600X vs Xeon E5-2678 v3 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2678 v3 is faster than the Ryzen 5 2600X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 2600X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2678 v3 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 2600X. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2678 v3 has 12 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 2600X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 2600X. A Ryzen 5 2600X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2678 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.