Intel Xeon E5-2640 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7520U

Xeon E5-2640 vs Ryzen 5 7520U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2640 beats the Ryzen 5 7520U in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7520U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2640 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 7520U. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2640 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 5 7520U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7520U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7520U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2640. Also, the Ryzen 5 7520U has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7520U outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2640 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7520U has slightly more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-2640. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2640 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 7520U.

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 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.