Intel Xeon E5-2660 v2 vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 2400G

Xeon E5-2660 v2 vs Ryzen 5 PRO 2400G benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2660 v2 beats the Ryzen 5 PRO 2400G in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 PRO 2400G has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2660 v2 has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 PRO 2400G has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 PRO 2400G. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 PRO 2400G has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2660 v2. Also, the Ryzen 5 PRO 2400G has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 PRO 2400G 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.

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.