AMD Ryzen 9 5950X vs Intel Xeon E5-2696 v3

Ryzen 9 5950X vs Xeon E5-2696 v3 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 5950X beats the Xeon E5-2696 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2696 v3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 9 5950X. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 has 18 cores compared to 16 cores found in the Ryzen 9 5950X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 5950X. A Ryzen 9 5950X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2696 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 5950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.