AMD Ryzen 5 3600X vs Intel Xeon E5-2670

Ryzen 5 3600X vs Xeon E5-2670 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 3600X is faster than the Xeon E5-2670. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2670 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2670 has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 3600X that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3600X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3600X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2670. Also, the Ryzen 5 3600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3600X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2670 CPU because of its slightly 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 3600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.