Intel Xeon E5-2690 vs AMD Ryzen Z2 Go

Xeon E5-2690 vs Ryzen Z2 Go benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2690 is faster than the Ryzen Z2 Go. Despite this, the Ryzen Z2 Go has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2690 has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen Z2 Go that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen Z2 Go. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen Z2 Go has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2690. Also, the Ryzen Z2 Go has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen Z2 Go outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2690 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.