AMD Ryzen 9 5950X vs Intel Xeon E5-2678 v3

Ryzen 9 5950X vs Xeon E5-2678 v3 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 5950X beats the Xeon E5-2678 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2678 v3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 5950X has slightly more cores than the Xeon E5-2678 v3. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5950X has 16 cores compared to 12 cores found in the Xeon E5-2678 v3. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2678 v3. A Ryzen 9 5950X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2678 v3 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.