AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT vs Intel Xeon E5-1660 v3

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-1660 v3

Price

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$ 129.99

$ 69.27 significantly less expensive

$ 199.26

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4503 points

2% slightly better overall score

4392 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6227 points

15% slightly better gaming score

5377 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3971 points

4064 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3849 points

3979 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

139.64 points

148.95 points

6% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7102 points

8091 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1673 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1373 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7245 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

7100 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1728 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1291 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz

26% slightly higher clock speed

3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz

28% slightly higher turbo speed

3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

47% significantly lower TDP

140 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

389th of 1,089

401st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 July

2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 5 3600XT vs Xeon E5-1660 v3 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-1660 v3 performs better than the Ryzen 5 3600XT. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3600XT has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-1660 v3 has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 3600XT that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3600XT. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 3600XT has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-1660 v3. Also, the Ryzen 5 3600XT has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3600XT CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1660 v3 CPU because of its significantly 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 3600XT has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.