Ryzen 7 1700 vs Xeon E5-2637 v3 benchmarks
In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 1700 beats the Xeon E5-2637 v3 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2637 v3 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.
In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 1700 has significantly more cores than the Xeon E5-2637 v3. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 1700 has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Xeon E5-2637 v3. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2637 v3. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2637 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 1700. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 1700 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2637 v3 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.
Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 1700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.
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