AMD Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition vs Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3

Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition vs Xeon E5-2687W v3 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition is faster than the Xeon E5-2687W v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2687W v3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2687W v3 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2687W v3 has 10 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2687W v3 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon E5-2687W v3. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2687W v3 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition.

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.