Intel Xeon E5-2699 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 5 6600H

Xeon E5-2699 v3 vs Ryzen 5 6600H comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2699 v3 performs better than the Ryzen 5 6600H. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 6600H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2699 v3 has significantly more cores with 18 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 6600H that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 6600H. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 6600H has a significantly 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.