Intel Xeon E5-2696 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 5 8640HS

Xeon E5-2696 v3 vs Ryzen 5 8640HS comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 beats the Ryzen 5 8640HS in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 8640HS has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 8640HS. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 has 18 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 8640HS. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 8640HS.

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 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.