AMD Ryzen 5 5600X vs Intel Xeon W-2155

Ryzen 5 5600X vs Xeon W-2155 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon W-2155 beats the Ryzen 5 5600X in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5600X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon W-2155 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5600X. Indeed, the Xeon W-2155 has 10 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5600X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon W-2155. Also, the Ryzen 5 5600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5600X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon W-2155 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.