Intel Xeon E5-2690 v2 vs AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS

Xeon E5-2690 v2 vs Ryzen 7 8840HS specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2690 v2 beats the Ryzen 7 8840HS in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 8840HS has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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 8840HS that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 8840HS. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 8840HS has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2690 v2.

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.