Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4 vs AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS

Xeon E5-2690 v4 vs Ryzen 9 7940HS benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2690 v4 is faster than the Ryzen 9 7940HS. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 7940HS has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2690 v4 has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 7940HS has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 7940HS. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7940HS has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2690 v4.

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 v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.