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

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

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2696 v2 is faster than the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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 PRO 4650U. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2696 v2 has 12 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U.

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.