AMD Ryzen 7 2700 vs Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2

Ryzen 7 2700 vs Xeon E5-2697 v2 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 2700 is faster than the Xeon E5-2697 v2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2697 v2 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2697 v2 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 2700. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2697 v2 has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 2700. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 2700. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 2700 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2697 v2. Also, the Ryzen 7 2700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 2700 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2697 v2 CPU because of its significantly 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 2700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.