AMD Ryzen 7 1800X vs Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core CPU vs Intel 10 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

5542 points

14% slightly better overall score

4823 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6612 points

24% slightly better gaming score

5321 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5172 points

11% slightly better multitasking score

4658 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5056 points

9% slightly better heavy workload score

4614 points

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3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4496 points

4806 points

6% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

141.60 points

152.03 points

7% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

25% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

25% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

24% slightly higher clock speed

2.90 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

60% significantly more L2 cache

2.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

25 MiB

56% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

289th of 1,089

363rd 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 1800X vs Xeon E5-2666 v3 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 1800X is faster than the Xeon E5-2666 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2666 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 1800X has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 1800X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 1800X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2666 v3. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 1800X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon E5-2666 v3. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 7 1800X.

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 1800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.