AMD Ryzen 5 1600X vs Intel Xeon E5-2660 v4. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• CPU group
  AMD Ryzen 1000 Intel Xeon E5 v4
• Family
  Ryzen Intel Xeon E5
• Form Factor
  Desktops / Boxed Processor -
• Generation
  1 6
• Predecessor
  - Intel Xeon E5-2660 v3
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Series
  Ryzen 1000 Series -

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• Base Frequency
  3.6 GHz 2 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  6 14
• CPU Threads
  12 28
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes Yes
• Max. Boost Clock
  4 GHz -
• Overclocking
  Yes No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3.7 GHz 3.2 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (6 Cores)
  3.5 GHz -
• Turbo Frequency (14 Cores)
  - 2.4 GHz

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  None no iGPU
• GPU Turbo
  - No turbo

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• AV1
  No No
• H.264 / AVC
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• JPEG
  No No
• VC-1
  No No
• VP8
  No No
• VP9
  No No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Xeon E5-2660 v4 and AMD Ryzen 5 1600X. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Memory channels
  2 4
• Memory type
  DDR4 DDR4-2400
• PCIe
  PCIe 3.0 x16 -
• PCIe lanes
  20 40
• PCIe version
  3.0 3.0
• System Memory Specification
  2667 -

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Ryzen 5 1600X and Intel Xeon E5-2660 v4 Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• Default TDP
  95 W -
• Maximum Operating Temperature
  95 °C -
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  95 W 105 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Ryzen 5 1600X and Intel Xeon E5-2660 v4, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Summit Ridge (Zen) Broadwell E
• Codename
  Summit Ridge -
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L1-Cache
  0.5625 MB -
• L2-Cache
  3 MB -
• L3-Cache
  16 MB 35 MB
• Manufacturer product ID (boxed)
  YD160XBCAEWOF -
• Manufacturer product ID (MPK)
  YD160XBCAEMPK -
• Manufacturer product ID (tray)
  YD160XBCM6IAE -
• Operating systems
  Windows 10 - 64-Bit Edition / RHEL x86 64-Bit / Ubuntu x86 64-Bit -
• Release date
  2017-04-11 Q1/2016
• Socket
  AM4 LGA 2011-3
• Technology
  14nm 14 nm
• Thermal Solution (MPK)
  AMD Wraith Max -
• Thermal Solution (PIB)
  Not Included -
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d