AMD Ryzen 7 2700X vs Intel Xeon E5-2687W

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
$ 828.01 significantly less expensive
$ 999.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5776 points
40% slightly better overall score
4113 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6952 points
42% slightly better gaming score
4879 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5375 points
39% slightly better multitasking score
3854 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5256 points
39% slightly better heavy workload score
3775 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

149.45 points
71% significantly higher Blender score
87.34 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6148 points
15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
5319 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1232 points
72% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
716 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6111 points
77% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
3443 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1254 points
111% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
592 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
19% slightly higher clock speed
3.10 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.35 GHz
14% slightly higher turbo speed
3.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W
42% much lower TDP
150 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
4
100% significantly more memory channels

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache
2 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
20 MiB
25% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

271st of 1,089
426th 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 E5-2687W comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 2700X performs better than the Xeon E5-2687W. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2687W in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 2700X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2687W. Also, the Ryzen 7 2700X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 2700X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2687W CPU because of its much lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 2700X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon E5-2687W. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2687W has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 7 2700X.

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 2700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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