Intel Xeon E5-2640 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5560U

Xeon E5-2640 v3 vs Ryzen 5 5560U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2640 v3 beats the Ryzen 5 5560U in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5560U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2640 v3 has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 5560U that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5560U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2640 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5560U.

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 E5-2640 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.