AMD Ryzen 5 3350G vs Intel Xeon E5-2643 v2

Ryzen 5 3350G vs Xeon E5-2643 v2 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2643 v2 beats the Ryzen 5 3350G in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3350G has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2643 v2 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 3350G. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2643 v2 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 5 3350G. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3350G. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 3350G has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2643 v2. A Ryzen 5 3350G CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2643 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 5 3350G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.