AMD Ryzen 7 1700X vs Intel Xeon E5-1620 v4

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 195.99
$ 8.36 slightly less expensive
$ 204.35

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4528 points
63% significantly better overall score
2777 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5692 points
32% slightly better gaming score
4309 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4151 points
80% significantly better multitasking score
2303 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4054 points
83% significantly better heavy workload score
2209 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

131.79 points
101% significantly higher Blender score
65.44 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5551 points
84% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
3009 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1070 points
21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
883 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5573 points
38% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
4033 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1100 points
1125 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
100% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
100% significantly more threads
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz
3.5 GHz
2% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz
Identical
3.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
47% significantly lower TDP
140 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
4
100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

386th of 1,089
576th 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 May

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 1700X vs Xeon E5-1620 v4 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 1700X is faster than the Xeon E5-1620 v4. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1620 v4 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 1700X has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Xeon E5-1620 v4 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-1620 v4. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-1620 v4 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 1700X. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 1700X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1620 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 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 1700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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