Intel Xeon E5-2620 v2 vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Mobile
• Family
  Intel Xeon E5 AMD Ryzen
• Generation
  4 5
• CPU group
  Intel Xeon E5 v2 AMD Ryzen 6000U
• Predecessor
  -- AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Frequency
  2.10 GHz 2.70 GHz
• Overclocking
  No No
• Core architecture
  normal normal

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  no iGPU AMD Radeon RX 680M
• GPU frequency
  2.00 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 2.20 GHz
• Execution units
  12
• Shader
  768
• Max. GPU Memory
  -- 8 GB
• Max. displays
  3
• Generation
  9
• Technology
  6 nm
• Release date
  Q1/2022

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• h264
  No Decode / Encode
• VP9
  No Decode / Encode
• VP8
  No Decode / Encode
• AV1
  No Decode
• AVC
  No Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  No Decode
• JPEG
  No Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U and Intel Xeon E5-2620 v2. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3-1600 DDR5-4800LPDDR5-6400
• Max. Memory
  64 GB
• ECC
  Yes No
• Memory channels
  4 4

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon E5-2620 v2 and AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  80 W 15 W
• TDP up
  -- 28 W
• Tjunction max.
  -- 105 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon E5-2620 v2 and Intel Xeon E5-2620 v2, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d AMD-V, SVM
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• L2-Cache
  -- 4.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  15.00 MB 16.00 MB
• Architecture
  Ivy Bridge EP Rembrandt (Zen 3+)
• Technology
  22 nm 6 nm
• Socket
  LGA 2011 FP7
• Release date
  Q3/2013 Q2/2022