AMD Ryzen 5 3450U vs Intel Xeon E5-2660

Ryzen 5 3450U vs Xeon E5-2660 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2660 beats the Ryzen 5 3450U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3450U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2660 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 3450U. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2660 has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 5 3450U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3450U. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2660 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 3450U. A Ryzen 5 3450U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2660 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 3450U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.