Intel Xeon E5-1660 v4 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7530U

Xeon E5-1660 v4 vs Ryzen 5 7530U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-1660 v4 beats the Ryzen 5 7530U in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7530U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-1660 v4 has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 7530U that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7530U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1660 v4 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 7530U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7530U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7530U outputs less heat than Xeon E5-1660 v4 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 v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.