AMD Ryzen 5 4600U vs Intel Xeon E5-2689

Ryzen 5 4600U vs Xeon E5-2689 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2689 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 E5-2689 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 E5-2689 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 4600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.