AMD Ryzen 9 5900X vs Intel Xeon E5-2673 v4

Ryzen 9 5900X vs Xeon E5-2673 v4 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 5900X is faster than the Xeon E5-2673 v4. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2673 v4 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2673 v4 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 9 5900X. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2673 v4 has 20 cores compared to 12 cores found in the Ryzen 9 5900X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 5900X. A Ryzen 9 5900X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2673 v4 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.