Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2 vs AMD Ryzen 7 6800HS

Xeon E5-2696 v2 vs Ryzen 7 6800HS specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 6800HS 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2696 v2 has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 6800HS that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 6800HS.

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.