Intel Xeon E5-2689 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5625U

Xeon E5-2689 vs Ryzen 5 5625U specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2689 performs better than the Ryzen 5 5625U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5625U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2689 has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5625U. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2689 has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5625U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5625U. The Ryzen 5 5625U outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2689 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 E5-2689 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.