Intel Xeon E5-2690 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7235HS

Xeon E5-2690 vs Ryzen 5 7235HS benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 7235HS beats the Xeon E5-2690 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2690 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2690 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 7235HS. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2690 has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 5 7235HS. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7235HS. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 7235HS has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2690.

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