AMD Ryzen 7 5800HS vs Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2

Ryzen 7 5800HS vs Xeon E5-2696 v2 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2696 v2 performs better 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 E5-2696 v2 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.

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.