AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs Intel Xeon E5-2678 v3

Ryzen 5 3600 vs Xeon E5-2678 v3 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2678 v3 beats the Ryzen 5 3600 in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3600 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2678 v3 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 3600 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3600. A Ryzen 5 3600 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2678 v3 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.