Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 vs AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D

Xeon E5-2680 v4 vs Ryzen 7 5800X3D specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D beats the Xeon E5-2680 v4 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2680 v4 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2680 v4 has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 5800X3D has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2680 v4. Also, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 5800X3D outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2680 v4 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 Xeon E5-2680 v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.