Intel Xeon E5-2689 vs AMD Ryzen Z2 Go

Xeon E5-2689 vs Ryzen Z2 Go benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen Z2 Go 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.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2689 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen Z2 Go. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2689 has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen Z2 Go. It also has more threads than the Ryzen Z2 Go. The Ryzen Z2 Go 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.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2689 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.