Intel Xeon E5-2643 v2 vs AMD Ryzen 3 5425U

Xeon E5-2643 v2 vs Ryzen 3 5425U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 3 5425U beats the Xeon E5-2643 v2 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2643 v2 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2643 v2 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Ryzen 3 5425U that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 5425U. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2643 v2 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 3 5425U. Despite this, the Ryzen 3 5425U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 3 5425U outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2643 v2 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 E5-2643 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.