AMD Ryzen 7 1800X vs Intel Xeon E5-2699 v3

Ryzen 7 1800X vs Xeon E5-2699 v3 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2699 v3 beats the Ryzen 7 1800X in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 1800X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2699 v3 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 1800X. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2699 v3 has 18 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 1800X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 1800X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 1800X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2699 v3. A Ryzen 7 1800X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2699 v3 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 7 1800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.