AMD Ryzen 7 4800HS vs Intel Xeon E5-2698 v3

Ryzen 7 4800HS vs Xeon E5-2698 v3 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2698 v3 beats the Ryzen 7 4800HS in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 4800HS has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2698 v3 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 4800HS. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2698 v3 has 16 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 4800HS. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 4800HS. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 4800HS has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2698 v3. Also, the Ryzen 7 4800HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 4800HS CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2698 v3 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 4800HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.