AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs Intel Xeon E5-2609 v3

Ryzen 5 3600 vs Xeon E5-2609 v3 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 3600 beats the Xeon E5-2609 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2609 v3 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Ryzen 5 3600 has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3600 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2609 v3. A Ryzen 5 3600 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2609 v3 CPU because of its 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 3600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.