AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3

Ryzen 5 3600 vs Xeon E5-2687W v3 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2687W v3 performs better than the Ryzen 5 3600. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3600 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2687W v3 has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 3600 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3600. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 3600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2687W v3. Also, the Ryzen 5 3600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3600 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2687W v3 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3600 has slightly more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-2687W v3. The Ryzen 5 3600 also has slightly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.