Intel Xeon E5-2696 v3 vs AMD Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme

Xeon E5-2696 v3 vs Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme is faster than the Xeon E5-2696 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2696 v3 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2696 v3 has significantly more cores with 18 cores compared to the Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme. The Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme 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.