AMD Ryzen 3 2200U vs Intel Xeon E5-520

Ryzen 3 2200U vs Xeon E5-520 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-520 is faster than the Ryzen 3 2200U. Despite this, the Ryzen 3 2200U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-520 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 3 2200U. Indeed, the Xeon E5-520 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Ryzen 3 2200U. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 3 2200U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-520. Also, the Ryzen 3 2200U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 3 2200U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-520 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Xeon E5-520 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 Ryzen 3 2200U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.