Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS

Xeon E5-2680 v3 vs Ryzen 7 8840HS benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2680 v3 beats the Ryzen 7 8840HS in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 8840HS has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2680 v3 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 8840HS. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2680 v3 has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 8840HS. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 8840HS. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 8840HS has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2680 v3.

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 E5-2680 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.