AMD Ryzen 5 2500U vs Intel Xeon W3580

Ryzen 5 2500U vs Xeon W3580 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 2500U beats the Xeon W3580 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon W3580 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon W3580 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 2500U. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. A Ryzen 5 2500U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon W3580 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, the Ryzen 5 2500U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon W3580. Despite this, the Xeon W3580 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 2500U.

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 5 2500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.