Intel Xeon E5-2640 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition

Xeon E5-2640 v3 vs Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2640 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 E5-2640 v3 has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2640 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2640 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed than 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 E5-2640 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.