Intel Xeon E5-2689 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7235HS

Xeon E5-2689 vs Ryzen 5 7235HS benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2689 performs better than the Ryzen 5 7235HS. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7235HS has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2689 has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 7235HS that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7235HS. The Ryzen 5 7235HS 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.