Intel Xeon E5-2699 v3 vs AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+

Xeon E5-2699 v3 vs Athlon 64 X2 4000+ specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2699 v3 performs better than the Athlon 64 X2 4000+. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon 64 X2 4000+ in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2699 v3 has significantly more cores than the Athlon 64 X2 4000+. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2699 v3 has 18 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Athlon 64 X2 4000+. It also has more threads than the Athlon 64 X2 4000+. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2699 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon 64 X2 4000+.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2699 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.