AMD Ryzen 7 5800HS vs Intel Xeon E5-1660 v4

Ryzen 7 5800HS vs Xeon E5-1660 v4 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-1660 v4 is faster than the Ryzen 7 5800HS. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5800HS has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1660 v4 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 5800HS. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5800HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 5800HS CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1660 v4 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5800HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.