Ryzen 5 3600X vs Xeon E5-2630 v3 benchmarks
In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2630 v3 beats the Ryzen 5 3600X in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3600X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.
In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2630 v3 has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 3600X. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2630 v3 has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 3600X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3600X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 3600X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2630 v3. Also, the Ryzen 5 3600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2630 v3 outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 3600X thanks to a 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 3600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.
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