AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme vs Intel Xeon E5-2687W v4

Ryzen Z1 Extreme vs Xeon E5-2687W v4 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen Z1 Extreme 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 Z1 Extreme. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2687W v4 has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen Z1 Extreme. It also has more threads than the Ryzen Z1 Extreme. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen Z1 Extreme has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2687W v4. Also, the Ryzen Z1 Extreme has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen Z1 Extreme 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 Z1 Extreme 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 Z1 Extreme.

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 Z1 Extreme has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.