AMD Ryzen 5 4600U vs Intel Xeon E5-1660 v3

Ryzen 5 4600U vs Xeon E5-1660 v3 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-1660 v3 beats the Ryzen 5 4600U in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 4600U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-1660 v3 has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 4600U. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1660 v3 has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 4600U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 4600U. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-1660 v3 has a much higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 4600U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 4600U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 4600U 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.

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 4600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.