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. Also, the Ryzen 7 7735HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 7735HS outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2690 v2 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.