Intel Xeon E5-1660 v4 vs AMD Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition

Xeon E5-1660 v4 vs Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition beats the Xeon E5-1660 v4 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1660 v4 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-1660 v4 has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1660 v4 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition.

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 Xeon E5-1660 v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.