AMD Ryzen 7 3700X vs Intel Xeon E5-2689

Ryzen 7 3700X vs Xeon E5-2689 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 3700X beats the Xeon E5-2689 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2689 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. A Ryzen 7 3700X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2689 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 3700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.