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

Compare Intel 12 core CPU vs AMD 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2

AMD Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5240 points

5427 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

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5199 points

7307 points

40% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5238 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

4865 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5217 points

9% slightly better heavy workload score

4745 points

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103.15 points

159.68 points

54% significantly higher Blender score

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Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

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320th of 1,089

300th of 1,089

Xeon E5-2696 v2 vs Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition 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 7 6800HS Creator Edition. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2696 v2 has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2696 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.