AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs Intel Xeon E5-2660 v4

Ryzen 5 3600 vs Xeon E5-2660 v4 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2660 v4 is faster than the Ryzen 5 3600. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3600 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2660 v4 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 3600. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2660 v4 has 14 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 3600. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3600. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 3600 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2660 v4. Also, the Ryzen 5 3600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3600 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2660 v4 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Xeon E5-2660 v4 has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 3600. The Xeon E5-2660 v4 also has slightly more L3 cache.

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.