Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition

Xeon E5-2630 v3 vs Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2630 v3 is faster than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2630 v3 has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2630 v3 has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2630 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2630 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.