AMD Ryzen 7 3700X vs Intel Xeon E5-2673 v4

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core CPU vs Intel 20 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2673 v4

Price

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$ 198.00

$ 89.00

$ 109.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6345 points

6502 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7643 points

46% significantly better gaming score

5216 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5911 points

6982 points

18% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5785 points

7212 points

24% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

180.28 points

243.49 points

35% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8116 points

10534 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1623 points

122% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

731 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8090 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

7218 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1674 points

75% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

952 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

150% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

150% significantly more threads

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

107% significantly lower TDP

135 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

233rd of 1,089

219th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 7 3700X vs Xeon E5-2673 v4 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 3700X performs better than the Xeon E5-2673 v4. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2673 v4 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2673 v4 has significantly more cores with 20 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 3700X has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 3700X. A Ryzen 7 3700X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2673 v4 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 3700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.