AMD Ryzen 5 3350G vs Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2

Ryzen 5 3350G vs Xeon E5-2696 v2 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2696 v2 beats the Ryzen 5 3350G in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3350G has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2696 v2 has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 3350G that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3350G.

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 3350G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.