AMD Ryzen 3 5300U vs Intel Xeon E5-2687W

Ryzen 3 5300U vs Xeon E5-2687W specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2687W beats the Ryzen 3 5300U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 3 5300U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2687W has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 3 5300U. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2687W has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 3 5300U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 5300U. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2687W has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 3 5300U. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. A Ryzen 3 5300U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2687W CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Xeon E5-2687W also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 Ryzen 3 5300U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.