Intel Xeon E5-2650 v4 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5560U

Xeon E5-2650 v4 vs Ryzen 5 5560U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2650 v4 beats the Ryzen 5 5560U in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5560U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2650 v4 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5560U. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2650 v4 has 12 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5560U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5560U. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5560U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2650 v4.

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 E5-2650 v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.