AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs Intel Xeon E5-2696 v3

Ryzen 5 3600 vs Xeon E5-2696 v3 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 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 E5-2696 v3 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 3600. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 has 18 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 E5-2696 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 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.