AMD Ryzen 7 1700X vs Intel Xeon X5680

Ryzen 7 1700X vs Xeon X5680 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon X5680 is faster than the Ryzen 7 1700X. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 1700X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 1700X has slightly more cores than the Xeon X5680. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 1700X has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Xeon X5680. It also has more threads than the Xeon X5680. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 1700X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon X5680. Also, the Ryzen 7 1700X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 1700X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon X5680 CPU because of its slightly 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 Ryzen 7 1700X has significantly more L2 cache than the Xeon X5680. The Ryzen 7 1700X also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 7 1700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.