AMD Ryzen 7 5800HS vs Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2

Ryzen 7 5800HS vs Xeon E5-2680 v2 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 5800HS performs better than the Xeon E5-2680 v2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2680 v2 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2680 v2 has slightly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 5800HS that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5800HS. According to our data, the Ryzen 7 5800HS and Xeon E5-2680 v2 have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5800HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 5800HS 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.

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.