Xeon E5-2678 v3 vs Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition benchmarks
In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition beats the Xeon E5-2678 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2678 v3 in all gaming tests too.
When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2678 v3 has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition.
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 E5-2678 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.
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