AMD Ryzen 5 4600U vs Intel Xeon E5-1680 v2

Ryzen 5 4600U vs Xeon E5-1680 v2 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-1680 v2 beats the Ryzen 5 4600U in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 4600U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-1680 v2 has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 4600U has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 4600U. A Ryzen 5 4600U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1680 v2 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 4600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.