Intel Xeon E5-2689 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7235HS

Xeon E5-2689 vs Ryzen 5 7235HS benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 7235HS performs better than the Xeon E5-2689. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2689 in all gaming tests too.

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.

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.