AMD Ryzen 7 5800H vs Intel Xeon E5-2699 v3

Ryzen 7 5800H vs Xeon E5-2699 v3 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2699 v3 beats the Ryzen 7 5800H in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5800H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2699 v3 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 5800H. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2699 v3 has 18 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 5800H. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5800H. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5800H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2699 v3. Also, the Ryzen 7 5800H has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 5800H CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2699 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 5800H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.