Intel Xeon E5-2640 v4 vs AMD Ryzen Z2 Go

Xeon E5-2640 v4 vs Ryzen Z2 Go comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2640 v4 beats the Ryzen Z2 Go in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen Z2 Go has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2640 v4 has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen Z2 Go has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen Z2 Go. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen Z2 Go has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2640 v4. Also, the Ryzen Z2 Go has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen Z2 Go outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2640 v4 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 E5-2640 v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.