Intel Xeon E5-2696 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 7 6800H

Xeon E5-2696 v3 vs Ryzen 7 6800H benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 6800H beats the Xeon E5-2696 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2696 v3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 6800H. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 has 18 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 6800H. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 6800H. The Ryzen 7 6800H outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2696 v3 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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