AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS vs Intel Xeon E5-2687W v4

Ryzen 9 5900HS vs Xeon E5-2687W v4 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 5900HS beats the Xeon E5-2687W v4 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2687W v4 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2687W v4 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 9 5900HS. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2687W v4 has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 9 5900HS. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 5900HS. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2687W v4 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 9 5900HS. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5900HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 5900HS CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2687W v4 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 9 5900HS has more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-2687W v4. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2687W v4 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 9 5900HS.

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 9 5900HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.