Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2 vs AMD Ryzen 7 5825U

Xeon E5-2696 v2 vs Ryzen 7 5825U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2696 v2 is faster than the Ryzen 7 5825U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5825U 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 7 5825U. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2696 v2 has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 5825U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5825U.

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