Intel Xeon E5-2678 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 7 7735U

Xeon E5-2678 v3 vs Ryzen 7 7735U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2678 v3 beats the Ryzen 7 7735U in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 7735U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2678 v3 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 7735U. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2678 v3 has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 7735U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7735U. The Ryzen 7 7735U outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2678 v3 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 E5-2678 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.