AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1900X vs Intel Xeon E5-2690 v3

Ryzen Threadripper 1900X vs Xeon E5-2690 v3 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen Threadripper 1900X beats the Xeon E5-2690 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2690 v3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2690 v3 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen Threadripper 1900X. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2690 v3 has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen Threadripper 1900X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen Threadripper 1900X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen Threadripper 1900X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2690 v3. Also, the Ryzen Threadripper 1900X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2690 v3 outputs less heat than Ryzen Threadripper 1900X thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen Threadripper 1900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.