AMD Ryzen 7 3700U vs Intel Xeon E5-2420 v2

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Mobile with Radeon RX Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 6 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

$ 1963.00
$ 60.25
$ 1902.75 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2551 points
2% slightly better overall score
2495 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4199 points
21% slightly better gaming score
3457 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2073 points
2187 points
5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1989 points
2116 points
6% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

46.48 points
55% significantly higher Blender score
29.84 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2494 points
3177 points
27% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

867 points
67% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
517 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2670 points
24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
2144 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

916 points
108% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
440 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
12
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz
4% slightly higher clock speed
2.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
48% significantly higher turbo speed
2.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
433% significantly lower TDP
80 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
3
49% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

615th of 1,089
628th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Mobile with Radeon RX Vega Graphics
Xeon E5 v2 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January
2014 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 7 3700U vs Xeon E5-2420 v2 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 3700U is faster than the Xeon E5-2420 v2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2420 v2 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2420 v2 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 3700U that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 3700U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 3700U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2420 v2. A Ryzen 7 3700U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2420 v2 CPU because of its significantly 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 3700U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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