AMD Ryzen 7 1700X vs Intel Xeon Silver 4210R

Ryzen 7 1700X vs Xeon Silver 4210R specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon Silver 4210R performs better than the Ryzen 7 1700X. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 1700X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon Silver 4210R has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 7 1700X. Indeed, the Xeon Silver 4210R has 10 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 1700X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 1700X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 1700X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon Silver 4210R. Also, the Ryzen 7 1700X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 1700X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon Silver 4210R CPU because of its slightly 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 1700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.