Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7640HS

Xeon E5-2696 v2 vs Ryzen 5 7640HS specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 7640HS is faster than the Xeon E5-2696 v2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2696 v2 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2696 v2 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 7640HS. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2696 v2 has 12 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 7640HS. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7640HS.

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 E5-2696 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.