Xeon E5-2660 vs Ryzen 5 7520U specs and performance
In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2660 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 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 7520U. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2660 has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 5 7520U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7520U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 7520U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2660. Also, the Ryzen 5 7520U has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7520U outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2660 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 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.
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