Intel Xeon E5-1680 v2 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7235HS

Xeon E5-1680 v2 vs Ryzen 5 7235HS comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-1680 v2 beats the Ryzen 5 7235HS in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7235HS has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-1680 v2 has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 7235HS has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7235HS. The Ryzen 5 7235HS outputs less heat than Xeon E5-1680 v2 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 E5-1680 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.