AMD Ryzen 7 2700U vs Intel Xeon E5-2650 v2

Ryzen 7 2700U vs Xeon E5-2650 v2 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2650 v2 beats the Ryzen 7 2700U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 2700U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2650 v2 has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 2700U that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 2700U. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2650 v2 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 2700U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 2700U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 2700U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2650 v2 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 2700U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.