AMD Ryzen 9 5900X vs Intel Xeon E5-2699 v3

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 12 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 18 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2699 v3

Price

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$ 269.00

$ 260.95 significantly less expensive

$ 529.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

9859 points

47% significantly better overall score

6700 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9924 points

90% significantly better gaming score

5199 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9836 points

35% slightly better multitasking score

7270 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9828 points

29% slightly better heavy workload score

7597 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

313.97 points

43% significantly higher Blender score

219.38 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

60% significantly higher clock speed

2.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz

33% slightly higher turbo speed

3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W

38% slightly lower TDP

145 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

94th of 1,089

210th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-1600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 9 5900X vs Xeon E5-2699 v3 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 5900X beats the Xeon E5-2699 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2699 v3 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2699 v3 has significantly more cores with 18 cores compared to the Ryzen 9 5900X that has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 5900X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 5900X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2699 v3. Also, the Ryzen 9 5900X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 5900X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2699 v3 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.