AMD Ryzen 7 3700U vs Intel Xeon E5-2640

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 E5-2640

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$ 1963.00

$ 65.00

$ 1898.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2551 points

2849 points

11% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4199 points

9% slightly better gaming score

3820 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2073 points

2537 points

22% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1989 points

2462 points

23% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

46.48 points

47.31 points

1% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2494 points

3360 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

867 points

55% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

558 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2670 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2265 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

916 points

103% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

450 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

2.50 GHz

8% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

33% slightly higher turbo speed

3 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

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

33% slightly more L2 cache

1.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB

15 MiB

274% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

615th of 1,089

560th 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 E5-2640 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2640 is faster than the Ryzen 7 3700U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 3700U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2640 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. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2640 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 3700U. A Ryzen 7 3700U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2640 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 3700U has slightly more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-2640. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2640 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 7 3700U.

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.