AMD Ryzen 7 2700 vs Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3

Ryzen 7 2700 vs Xeon E5-2666 v3 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 2700 beats the Xeon E5-2666 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2666 v3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 7 2700. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has 10 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 2700. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 2700. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 2700 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2666 v3. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 2700 has significantly more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-2666 v3. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 7 2700.

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 2700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.