Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 vs AMD Ryzen Z2 Go

Xeon E5-2670 v2 vs Ryzen Z2 Go specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2670 v2 performs better than the Ryzen Z2 Go. Despite this, the Ryzen Z2 Go has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2670 v2 has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen Z2 Go that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen Z2 Go. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen Z2 Go has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2670 v2. Also, the Ryzen Z2 Go has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen Z2 Go outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2670 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 E5-2670 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.