AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X vs Intel Xeon E5-2699 v3

Ryzen Threadripper 1950X vs Xeon E5-2699 v3 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2699 v3 is faster than the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X 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 Threadripper 1950X. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2699 v3 has 18 cores compared to 16 cores found in the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2699 v3. The Xeon E5-2699 v3 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.

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 Threadripper 1950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.