AMD Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition vs Intel Xeon E5-2660 v4

Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition vs Xeon E5-2660 v4 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2660 v4 is faster than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2660 v4 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2660 v4 has 14 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2660 v4. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2660 v4 has slightly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. The Xeon E5-2660 v4 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 Microsoft Surface Edition has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.