Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition

Xeon E5-2666 v3 vs Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2666 v3 performs better than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. 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 E5-2666 v3 has significantly more cores with 10 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. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition has slightly more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-2666 v3. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition.

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 E5-2666 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.