AMD Ryzen 7 1700 vs Intel Xeon E5-2696 v3

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core CPU vs Intel 18 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4724 points

6495 points

37% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5587 points

5724 points

2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4432 points

6803 points

53% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4341 points

6991 points

61% significantly better heavy workload score

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3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3899 points

6829 points

75% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

128.00 points

231.70 points

81% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5049 points

7392 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

987 points

1060 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5186 points

8186 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1027 points

1134 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

125% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

125% significantly more threads

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

123% significantly lower TDP

145 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

372nd of 1,089

221st 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 E5-2696 v3 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 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 E5-2696 v3 has significantly more cores with 18 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 1700 has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 1700. A Ryzen 7 1700 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2696 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.