AMD Ryzen 7 2700X vs Intel Xeon E5-2665

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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 170.99
$ 106.93
$ 64.06 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5776 points
4% slightly better overall score
5548 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6952 points
52% significantly better gaming score
4569 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5375 points
5916 points
10% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5256 points
6106 points
16% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

149.45 points
104% significantly higher Blender score
73.09 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6148 points
39% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
4404 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1232 points
115% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
573 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6111 points
115% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
2832 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1254 points
177% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
452 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
Identical
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
Identical
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz
54% significantly higher clock speed
2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.35 GHz
40% slightly higher turbo speed
3.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W
9% slightly lower TDP
115 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
4
100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

271st of 1,089
288th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop
Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 April
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 2700X vs Xeon E5-2665 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 2700X performs better than the Xeon E5-2665. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2665 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 2700X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2665. Also, the Ryzen 7 2700X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 2700X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2665 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 2700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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