AMD Ryzen 5 1400 vs Intel Xeon E5-2640

Ryzen 5 1400 vs Xeon E5-2640 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2640 beats the Ryzen 5 1400 in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 1400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2640 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 1400. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2640 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 5 1400. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 1400. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 1400 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2640. Also, the Ryzen 5 1400 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 1400 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2640 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1400 has slightly more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-2640. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2640 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 1400.

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 5 1400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.