AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs Intel Xeon E5-1680 v2

Ryzen 5 3600 vs Xeon E5-1680 v2 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 3600 beats the Xeon E5-1680 v2 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1680 v2 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-1680 v2 has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 3600. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1680 v2 has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 3600. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3600. A Ryzen 5 3600 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1680 v2 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 3600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.