Intel Xeon E5-2699 v3 vs AMD Ryzen Z1

Xeon E5-2699 v3 vs Ryzen Z1 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2699 v3 beats the Ryzen Z1 in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen Z1 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2699 v3 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen Z1. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2699 v3 has 18 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen Z1. It also has more threads than the Ryzen Z1. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen Z1 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2699 v3.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2699 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.