AMD Ryzen 7 5800HS vs Intel Xeon E5-2678 v3

Ryzen 7 5800HS vs Xeon E5-2678 v3 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2678 v3 is faster than the Ryzen 7 5800HS. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5800HS has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2678 v3 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 5800HS has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5800HS. A Ryzen 7 5800HS CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2678 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 5800HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.