Intel Xeon E5-2673 v4 vs AMD Ryzen Z1

Xeon E5-2673 v4 vs Ryzen Z1 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2673 v4 performs better than the Ryzen Z1. Despite this, the Ryzen Z1 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2673 v4 has significantly more cores with 20 cores compared to the Ryzen Z1 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen Z1.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2673 v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.