AMD Ryzen 9 3900X vs Intel Xeon E5-1650

Ryzen 9 3900X vs Xeon E5-1650 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 3900X beats the Xeon E5-1650 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1650 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 3900X has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Xeon E5-1650 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-1650. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 3900X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-1650. Also, the Ryzen 9 3900X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 3900X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1650 CPU because of its slightly 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 9 3900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.