Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2 vs AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX

Xeon E5-2696 v2 vs Ryzen 9 9955HX benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 9955HX performs better than the Xeon E5-2696 v2. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2696 v2 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 9955HX has slightly more cores than the Xeon E5-2696 v2. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 9955HX has 16 cores compared to 12 cores found in the Xeon E5-2696 v2. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2696 v2.

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.