Intel Xeon E5-2696 v3 vs AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme

Xeon E5-2696 v3 vs Ryzen Z1 Extreme benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 is faster than the Ryzen Z1 Extreme. Despite this, the Ryzen Z1 Extreme has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2696 v3 has significantly more cores with 18 cores whereas the Ryzen Z1 Extreme has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen Z1 Extreme. The Ryzen Z1 Extreme outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2696 v3 thanks to a significantly 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 E5-2696 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.