AMD Ryzen 7 5700U vs Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2

Ryzen 7 5700U vs Xeon E5-2696 v2 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2696 v2 performs better than the Ryzen 7 5700U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5700U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2696 v2 has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 5700U that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5700U.

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.