AMD Ryzen 7 1700X vs Intel Xeon E5-1680 v2

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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4528 points

4559 points

0.68% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5692 points

5695 points

0.05% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4151 points

4175 points

0.58% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4054 points

4067 points

0.32% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

131.79 points

45% significantly higher Blender score

90.67 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5551 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

3887 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1070 points

71% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

625 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5573 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

4201 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1100 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

690 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

95 W

36% slightly lower TDP

130 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

386th of 1,089

384th 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 1700X vs Xeon E5-1680 v2 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-1680 v2 performs better than the Ryzen 7 1700X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 1700X in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. A Ryzen 7 1700X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1680 v2 CPU because of its slightly 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.