AMD Ryzen 7 1700X vs Intel Xeon E5-2690

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

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Intel Xeon E5-2690

Price

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$ 195.99

$ 141.61

$ 54.38 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4528 points

6% slightly better overall score

4263 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5692 points

12% slightly better gaming score

5047 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4151 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

3997 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4054 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

3919 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

131.79 points

78% significantly higher Blender score

73.79 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5551 points

75% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

3154 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1070 points

102% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

528 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5573 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

3487 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1100 points

87% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

586 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz

17% slightly higher clock speed

2.9 GHz

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

42% slightly lower TDP

135 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

386th of 1,089

413th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop

Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February

2012 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR3-1066

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 E5-2690 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 1700X performs better than the Xeon E5-2690. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2690 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 1700X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2690. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 1700X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2690 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.