AMD Ryzen 5 3600X vs Intel Xeon E5-2696 v3

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 18 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5119 points

6495 points

26% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6906 points

20% slightly better gaming score

5724 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4555 points

6803 points

49% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4415 points

6991 points

58% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4734 points

6829 points

44% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

136.91 points

231.70 points

69% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6958 points

7392 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1612 points

52% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1060 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7073 points

8186 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1665 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1134 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

200% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

200% significantly more threads

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

52% significantly lower TDP

145 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

336th of 1,089

221st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 3600X vs Xeon E5-2696 v3 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 beats the Ryzen 5 3600X in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3600X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2696 v3 has significantly more cores with 18 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 3600X has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3600X. A Ryzen 5 3600X 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 3600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.