Intel Xeon E5-2699 v3 vs AMD Athlon II X4 651

Xeon E5-2699 v3 vs Athlon II X4 651 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2699 v3 beats the Athlon II X4 651 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X4 651 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2699 v3 has significantly more cores with 18 cores whereas the Athlon II X4 651 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Athlon II X4 651. Our comparison shows that the Athlon II X4 651 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2699 v3.

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 E5-2699 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.