Intel Xeon X5680 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7235HS

Xeon X5680 vs Ryzen 5 7235HS specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 7235HS beats the Xeon X5680 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon X5680 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon X5680 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 7235HS that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7235HS. Our comparison shows that the Xeon X5680 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 7235HS. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7235HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7235HS outputs less heat than Xeon X5680 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7235HS has significantly more L2 cache than the Xeon X5680. The Ryzen 5 7235HS also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 X5680 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.