AMD Ryzen 5 2400G vs Intel Xeon E5-2687W

Ryzen 5 2400G vs Xeon E5-2687W specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2687W beats the Ryzen 5 2400G in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 2400G has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2687W has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 2400G. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2687W has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 5 2400G. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 2400G. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 2400G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2687W. Also, the Ryzen 5 2400G has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 2400G 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.

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 2400G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.