Intel Xeon E5-2660 v2 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7520U

Xeon E5-2660 v2 vs Ryzen 5 7520U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2660 v2 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 E5-2660 v2 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 7520U. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2660 v2 has 10 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 5 7520U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7520U. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 7520U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2660 v2. Also, the Ryzen 5 7520U has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7520U outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2660 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 E5-2660 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.