Intel Xeon E5-1660 v3 vs AMD Ryzen Z2 Go

Xeon E5-1660 v3 vs Ryzen Z2 Go benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-1660 v3 beats the Ryzen Z2 Go in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen Z2 Go has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-1660 v3 has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen Z2 Go that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen Z2 Go. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen Z2 Go has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-1660 v3. Also, the Ryzen Z2 Go has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen Z2 Go outputs less heat than Xeon E5-1660 v3 thanks to a 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 Xeon E5-1660 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.