AMD Ryzen 9 5950X vs Intel Xeon E5-2699 v3

Ryzen 9 5950X vs Xeon E5-2699 v3 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 5950X is faster than the Xeon E5-2699 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2699 v3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2699 v3 has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 9 5950X. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2699 v3 has 18 cores compared to 16 cores found in the Ryzen 9 5950X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 5950X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 5950X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2699 v3. Also, the Ryzen 9 5950X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 5950X 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.

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.