AMD Ryzen 5 5600X vs Intel Xeon E5-2687W v4

Ryzen 5 5600X vs Xeon E5-2687W v4 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 5600X performs better than the Xeon E5-2687W v4. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2687W v4 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2687W v4 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5600X. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2687W v4 has 12 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5600X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2687W v4. Also, the Ryzen 5 5600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5600X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2687W v4 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Ryzen 5 5600X also has slightly more L3 cache.

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 5600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.