AMD Ryzen 5 3600X vs Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2

Ryzen 5 3600X vs Xeon E5-2696 v2 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2696 v2 performs better than the Ryzen 5 3600X. 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 E5-2696 v2 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 3600X. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2696 v2 has 12 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 3600X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3600X.

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.