Intel Xeon E5-2687W vs AMD Ryzen Z2 Go

Xeon E5-2687W vs Ryzen Z2 Go specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen Z2 Go beats the Xeon E5-2687W in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2687W in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2687W has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen Z2 Go has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen Z2 Go. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2687W has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen Z2 Go. Despite this, the Ryzen Z2 Go has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen Z2 Go outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2687W thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Xeon E5-2687W also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 E5-2687W has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.