AMD Ryzen 7 1700 vs Intel Xeon E5-2660 v4

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 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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Intel Xeon E5-2660 v4

Price

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$ 149.99

$ 6814.01 significantly less expensive

$ 6964.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4766 points

5000 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5654 points

16% slightly better gaming score

4860 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4465 points

5053 points

13% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4372 points

5066 points

15% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

128.00 points

201.57 points

57% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5186 points

6391 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1027 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

958 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

75% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

75% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz

49% significantly higher clock speed

2.00 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

15% slightly higher turbo speed

3.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

61% 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

4 MiB

14% slightly 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

379th of 1,105

358th of 1,105

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop

Xeon E5 v4 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February

2016 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-1600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 7 1700 vs Xeon E5-2660 v4 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2660 v4 beats the Ryzen 7 1700 in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 1700 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2660 v4 has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 1700 has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 1700. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 1700 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2660 v4. Also, the Ryzen 7 1700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 1700 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 7 1700 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 7 1700.

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.