AMD Ryzen 7 3700U vs Intel Xeon E5-1660

Ryzen 7 3700U vs Xeon E5-1660 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-1660 beats the Ryzen 7 3700U in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 3700U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-1660 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 3700U has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 3700U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1660 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 3700U. A Ryzen 7 3700U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1660 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 3700U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.