Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4 vs AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme

Xeon E5-2690 v4 vs Ryzen Z1 Extreme benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2690 v4 beats the Ryzen Z1 Extreme in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen Z1 Extreme 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 Z1 Extreme has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen Z1 Extreme. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen Z1 Extreme has a slightly 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.