Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2 vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G

Xeon E5-2696 v2 vs Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G beats the Xeon E5-2696 v2 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2696 v2 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2696 v2 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G.

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.