AMD Ryzen 5 3500U vs Intel Xeon E5-2689

Ryzen 5 3500U vs Xeon E5-2689 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2689 beats the Ryzen 5 3500U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3500U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2689 has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 3500U has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3500U. A Ryzen 5 3500U 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 3500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.