AMD Ryzen 7 3700U vs Intel Xeon E5-2670

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Mobile with Radeon RX Vega Graphics 4 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

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$ 1963.00
$ 491.40
$ 1471.60 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2551 points
2679 points
5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4199 points
11% slightly better gaming score
3763 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2073 points
2311 points
11% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1989 points
2218 points
11% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

46.48 points
69.61 points
49% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2494 points
3089 points
23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

867 points
76% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
491 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2670 points
3052 points
14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

916 points
81% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
505 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
16
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz
2.6 GHz
13% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
21% slightly higher turbo speed
3.3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
666% significantly 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

615th of 1,089
596th 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

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 7 3700U vs Xeon E5-2670 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2670 is faster than the Ryzen 7 3700U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 3700U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2670 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 3700U. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2670 has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 7 3700U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 3700U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2670 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 3700U. A Ryzen 7 3700U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2670 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 3700U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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