AMD Ryzen 7 2700U vs Intel Xeon X5650

Ryzen 7 2700U vs Xeon X5650 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 2700U beats the Xeon X5650 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon X5650 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon X5650 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 2700U. Indeed, the Xeon X5650 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 7 2700U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 2700U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon X5650 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 X5650 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 2700U has slightly more L2 cache than the Xeon X5650. Despite this, the Xeon X5650 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 7 2700U.

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 7 2700U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.