AMD Ryzen 7 5800X vs Intel Xeon E5-2470 v2

Ryzen 7 5800X vs Xeon E5-2470 v2 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 5800X beats the Xeon E5-2470 v2 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2470 v2 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2470 v2 has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 5800X has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5800X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5800X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2470 v2. Also, the Ryzen 7 5800X has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2470 v2 outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 5800X thanks to a slightly 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 5800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.