AMD Ryzen 5 4600U vs Intel Xeon E5-2667 v2

Ryzen 5 4600U vs Xeon E5-2667 v2 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2667 v2 is faster than the Ryzen 5 4600U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 4600U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2667 v2 has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 4600U that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 4600U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2667 v2 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 4600U. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. A Ryzen 5 4600U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2667 v2 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 4600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.