AMD Ryzen 5 9600X vs Intel Xeon Gold 6230

Ryzen 5 9600X vs Xeon Gold 6230 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon Gold 6230 beats the Ryzen 5 9600X in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 9600X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon Gold 6230 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 9600X. Indeed, the Xeon Gold 6230 has 20 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 9600X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 9600X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 9600X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon Gold 6230. Also, the Ryzen 5 9600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 9600X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon Gold 6230 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Xeon Gold 6230 has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 9600X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 9600X has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Xeon Gold 6230.

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 9600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.