AMD Ryzen 7 1700 vs Intel Xeon E5-2690 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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Price

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$ 149.99
$ 866.09 significantly less expensive
$ 1016.08

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4724 points
6682 points
41% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5587 points
6240 points
11% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4432 points
6819 points
53% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4341 points
6860 points
58% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

128.00 points
200.70 points
56% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5049 points
7768 points
53% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

987 points
1069 points
8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5186 points
8934 points
72% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1027 points
1072 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
14
75% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
28
75% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz
15% slightly higher clock speed
2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz
5% slightly higher turbo speed
3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
107% significantly lower TDP
135 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
4
100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

372nd of 1,089
211th of 1,089

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 E5-2690 v4 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2690 v4 beats the Ryzen 7 1700 in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 1700 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2690 v4 has significantly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 1700 that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 1700. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 1700 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2690 v4. Also, the Ryzen 7 1700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 1700 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2690 v4 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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