AMD Ryzen 7 3800X vs Intel Xeon E5-2689

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

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Intel Xeon E5-2689

Price

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$ 339.99

$ 109.95

$ 230.04 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6549 points

55% significantly better overall score

4209 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7888 points

61% significantly better gaming score

4875 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6111 points

53% significantly better multitasking score

3976 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5988 points

53% significantly better heavy workload score

3900 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

185.59 points

135% significantly higher Blender score

78.82 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W

9% slightly lower TDP

115 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

218th of 1,089

418th 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 3800X vs Xeon E5-2689 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 3800X is faster than the Xeon E5-2689. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2689 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. A Ryzen 7 3800X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2689 CPU because of its slightly 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 3800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.