AMD Ryzen 7 2700 vs Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2

Ryzen 7 2700 vs Xeon E5-2696 v2 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2696 v2 beats the Ryzen 7 2700 in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 2700 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2696 v2 has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 2700 that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 2700.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 2700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.