Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2 vs AMD Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition

Xeon E5-2697 v2 vs Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2697 v2 performs better than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2697 v2 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2697 v2 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2697 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.