Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4 vs AMD Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme

Xeon E5-2690 v4 vs Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme is faster than the Xeon E5-2690 v4. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2690 v4 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2690 v4 has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2690 v4 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme. Despite this, the Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme has a much higher turbo speed. The Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2690 v4 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 v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.