AMD Ryzen 7 2700 vs Intel Xeon Silver 4210R

Ryzen 7 2700 vs Xeon Silver 4210R benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon Silver 4210R performs better than the Ryzen 7 2700. 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 Silver 4210R has slightly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 2700 that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 2700. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 2700 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon Silver 4210R. Also, the Ryzen 7 2700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 2700 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon Silver 4210R 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 7 2700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.