Intel Xeon E5-2673 v4 vs AMD Ryzen 7 8745HS

Xeon E5-2673 v4 vs Ryzen 7 8745HS benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 8745HS is faster than the Xeon E5-2673 v4. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2673 v4 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2673 v4 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 8745HS. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2673 v4 has 20 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 8745HS. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 8745HS.

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 v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.