AMD Ryzen 7 3800X 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 339.99
$ 89.00
$ 250.99 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6549 points
0.72% slightly better overall score
6502 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7888 points
51% significantly better gaming score
5216 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6111 points
6982 points
14% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5988 points
7212 points
20% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

185.59 points
243.49 points
31% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9081 points
10534 points
16% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1720 points
135% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
731 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8236 points
14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
7218 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1703 points
78% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
952 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
20
150% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
40
150% significantly more threads

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W
28% slightly lower TDP
135 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

218th of 1,089
219th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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Ryzen 7 3800X vs Xeon E5-2673 v4 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 3800X is faster 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.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2673 v4 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 3800X. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2673 v4 has 20 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 3800X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 3800X. A Ryzen 7 3800X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2673 v4 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 3800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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