AMD Ryzen 7 1700X vs Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2

Ryzen 7 1700X vs Xeon E5-2680 v2 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 1700X beats the Xeon E5-2680 v2 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2680 v2 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2680 v2 has slightly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 1700X that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 1700X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 1700X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2680 v2. Also, the Ryzen 7 1700X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 1700X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2680 v2 CPU because of its slightly 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 1700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.