Intel Xeon E5-2690 v2 vs AMD Ryzen 7 7735HS

Xeon E5-2690 v2 vs Ryzen 7 7735HS benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 7735HS beats the Xeon E5-2690 v2 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2690 v2 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2690 v2 has slightly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 7735HS that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7735HS. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 7735HS has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2690 v2.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2690 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.