Intel Xeon E5-2650 v4 vs AMD Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition

Xeon E5-2650 v4 vs Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition specs and performance

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

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2650 v4 has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2650 v4.

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