Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 5 9600X

Xeon E5-2666 v3 vs Ryzen 5 9600X benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 9600X beats the Xeon E5-2666 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2666 v3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 9600X. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has 10 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 9600X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 9600X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 9600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2666 v3. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 9600X has significantly more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-2666 v3. The Ryzen 5 9600X also has slightly more L3 cache.

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 Xeon E5-2666 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.