AMD Ryzen 7 1700 vs Intel Xeon E5-1680 v2

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core CPU vs Intel 8 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

4724 points

3% slightly better overall score

4559 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5587 points

5695 points

1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4432 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

4175 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4341 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

4067 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

128.00 points

41% slightly higher Blender score

90.67 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5049 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

3887 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

987 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

625 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5186 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

4201 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1027 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

690 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

100% significantly lower TDP

130 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

372nd of 1,089

384th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 7 1700 vs Xeon E5-1680 v2 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 1700 beats the Xeon E5-1680 v2 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E5-1680 v2 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. A Ryzen 7 1700 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1680 v2 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 7 1700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.