AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X vs Intel Xeon E5-2673 v4

Ryzen Threadripper 1950X vs Xeon E5-2673 v4 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2673 v4 beats the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2673 v4 has slightly more cores than the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2673 v4 has 20 cores compared to 16 cores found in the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X. The Xeon E5-2673 v4 outputs less heat than Ryzen Threadripper 1950X thanks to a 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 Threadripper 1950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.