Xeon E5-2660 v2 vs Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition specs and performance
In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition beats the Xeon E5-2660 v2 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2660 v2 in all gaming tests too.
In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2660 v2 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2660 v2 has 10 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2660 v2.
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 E5-2660 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.
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