AMD Ryzen 5 3350G vs Intel Xeon E5-2689

Ryzen 5 3350G vs Xeon E5-2689 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2689 performs better than the Ryzen 5 3350G. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3350G has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2689 has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 3350G has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3350G. A Ryzen 5 3350G CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2689 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.