AMD Ryzen 7 3700U vs Intel Xeon E5-2630

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Mobile with Radeon RX Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 Family 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2630

Price

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$ 1963.00

$ 856.38

$ 1106.62 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2551 points

2586 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4199 points

16% slightly better gaming score

3592 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2073 points

2259 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1989 points

2183 points

9% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

46.48 points

22% slightly higher Blender score

38.04 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2494 points

3117 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

867 points

69% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

510 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2670 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2380 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

916 points

104% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

448 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz

Identical

2.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

42% much higher turbo speed

2.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

533% significantly lower TDP

95 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

615th of 1,089

610th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Mobile with Radeon RX Vega Graphics

Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

2012 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 7 3700U vs Xeon E5-2630 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 3700U beats the Xeon E5-2630 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2630 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2630 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 3700U has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 3700U. In terms of clock speed, the Ryzen 7 3700U and Xeon E5-2630 are identical in this regard. A Ryzen 7 3700U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2630 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.