AMD Ryzen 7 1700 vs Intel Xeon E5-2689

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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Intel Xeon E5-2689

Price

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$ 149.99

$ 109.95

$ 40.04 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4724 points

12% slightly better overall score

4209 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5587 points

14% slightly better gaming score

4875 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4432 points

11% slightly better multitasking score

3976 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4341 points

11% slightly better heavy workload score

3900 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

128.00 points

62% significantly higher Blender score

78.82 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

76% significantly lower TDP

115 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

372nd of 1,089

418th 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 E5-2689 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 1700 beats the Xeon E5-2689 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2689 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. A Ryzen 7 1700 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2689 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.