AMD Ryzen 9 5900X vs Intel Xeon E5-1680 v2

Ryzen 9 5900X vs Xeon E5-1680 v2 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 5900X beats the Xeon E5-1680 v2 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1680 v2 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 5900X has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Xeon E5-1680 v2 has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-1680 v2. A Ryzen 9 5900X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1680 v2 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 5900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.