AMD Ryzen 5 4600U vs Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2

Ryzen 5 4600U vs Xeon E5-2670 v2 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2670 v2 beats the Ryzen 5 4600U in overall performance. 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 E5-2670 v2 has significantly more cores with 10 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 E5-2670 v2 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 4600U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 4600U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 4600U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2670 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.