AMD Ryzen 5 7520U vs Intel Xeon E3-1245 V2

Ryzen 5 7520U vs Xeon E3-1245 V2 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E3-1245 V2 beats the Ryzen 5 7520U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 7520U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E3-1245 V2 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 7520U. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7520U has significantly more L2 cache than the Xeon E3-1245 V2. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1245 V2 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 7520U.

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 7520U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.