Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7640U

Xeon E5-2697 v2 vs Ryzen 5 7640U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 7640U is faster than the Xeon E5-2697 v2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2697 v2 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2697 v2 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 7640U has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7640U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7640U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2697 v2. Also, the Ryzen 5 7640U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7640U outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2697 v2 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 E5-2697 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.