Intel Xeon E5-2673 v4 vs AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme

Xeon E5-2673 v4 vs Ryzen Z1 Extreme comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2673 v4 performs better than the Ryzen Z1 Extreme. Despite this, the Ryzen Z1 Extreme 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 Z1 Extreme. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2673 v4 has 20 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen Z1 Extreme. It also has more threads than the Ryzen Z1 Extreme. The Ryzen Z1 Extreme outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2673 v4 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 E5-2673 v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.