Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 vs AMD Ryzen 7 7730U

Xeon E5-2680 v4 vs Ryzen 7 7730U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2680 v4 beats the Ryzen 7 7730U in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 7730U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2680 v4 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 7730U. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2680 v4 has 14 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 7730U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7730U. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2680 v4 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 7730U.

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 E5-2680 v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.