AMD Ryzen 5 7640U vs Intel Xeon E5-2660 v4

Compare AMD Ryzen 7000 Series 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 14 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5252 points

5% slightly better overall score

5000 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7216 points

48% significantly better gaming score

4860 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4621 points

5053 points

9% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4465 points

5066 points

13% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

172.19 points

201.57 points

17% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8481 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

6391 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2104 points

119% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

958 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

133% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

133% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.50 GHz

74% significantly higher clock speed

2.00 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz

53% significantly higher turbo speed

3.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

28 W

274% significantly lower TDP

105 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB

71% significantly more L2 cache

3.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

35 MiB

118% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

317th of 1,089

348th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7000 Series

Xeon E5 v4 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 May

2016 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5

DDR4-1600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 5 7640U vs Xeon E5-2660 v4 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 7640U beats the Xeon E5-2660 v4 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2660 v4 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2660 v4 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 7640U. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2660 v4 has 14 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 7640U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7640U. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 7640U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2660 v4. Also, the Ryzen 5 7640U has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 7640U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2660 v4 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 7640U has more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-2660 v4. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2660 v4 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 7640U.

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 Ryzen 5 7640U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.