Xeon E5-2690 v3 vs Ryzen 9 9955HX benchmarks
Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2690 v3 performs better than the Ryzen 9 9955HX. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 9955HX in all gaming tests too.
When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 9955HX has slightly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Xeon E5-2690 v3 that has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2690 v3. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2690 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 9 9955HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 9955HX has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 9955HX outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2690 v3 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 E5-2690 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.
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