Intel Xeon E5-2690 v2 vs AMD Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition

Xeon E5-2690 v2 vs Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2690 v2 beats the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2690 v2 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2690 v2 has 10 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2690 v2 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition.

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 E5-2690 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.