AMD Ryzen 7 1700 vs Intel Xeon E5-2670 v3

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 12 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2670 v3

Price

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$ 149.99

$ 1875.41 significantly less expensive

$ 2025.40

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4724 points

5014 points

6% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5587 points

11% slightly better gaming score

5009 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4432 points

5003 points

12% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4341 points

4989 points

14% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

128.00 points

145.84 points

13% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5049 points

5840 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

987 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

883 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5186 points

5958 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1027 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

941 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz

30% slightly higher clock speed

2.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

19% slightly higher turbo speed

3.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

84% significantly lower TDP

120 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

372nd of 1,089

346th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February

2014 August

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 E5-2670 v3 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2670 v3 is faster than the Ryzen 7 1700. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 1700 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2670 v3 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 1700. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2670 v3 has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 1700. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 1700. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 1700 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2670 v3. Also, the Ryzen 7 1700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 1700 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2670 v3 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 1700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.