Intel Xeon E5-2420 v2 vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U

Xeon E5-2420 v2 vs Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U beats the Xeon E5-2420 v2 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2420 v2 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2420 v2 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2420 v2 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2420 v2 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2420 v2 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 E5-2420 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.