AMD Ryzen 3 5300U vs Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2

Ryzen 3 5300U vs Xeon E5-2697 v2 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2697 v2 beats the Ryzen 3 5300U in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 3 5300U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2697 v2 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 3 5300U has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 5300U. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2697 v2 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 3 5300U. Despite this, the Ryzen 3 5300U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 3 5300U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2697 v2 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.