Intel Xeon E5-2673 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7430U

Xeon E5-2673 v3 vs Ryzen 5 7430U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 7430U beats the Xeon E5-2673 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2673 v3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2673 v3 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 7430U. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2673 v3 has 12 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 7430U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7430U.

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 E5-2673 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.