AMD Ryzen 7 5700U vs Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2

Ryzen 7 5700U vs Xeon E5-2680 v2 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 5700U beats the Xeon E5-2680 v2 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2680 v2 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2680 v2 has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 7 5700U. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2680 v2 has 10 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 5700U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5700U. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2680 v2 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 5700U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5700U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 5700U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2680 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 5700U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.