Intel Xeon W3680 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7520U

Xeon W3680 vs Ryzen 5 7520U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon W3680 beats the Ryzen 5 7520U in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7520U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon W3680 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 7520U has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7520U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon W3680 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 7520U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7520U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7520U outputs less heat than Xeon W3680 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Xeon W3680 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 7520U

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 W3680 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.