AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT vs Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 14 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4

Price

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$ 230.00

$ 786.08 significantly less expensive

$ 1016.08

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7216 points

7% slightly better overall score

6682 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8527 points

36% slightly better gaming score

6240 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6778 points

6819 points

0.60% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6644 points

6860 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

185.87 points

200.70 points

7% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8580 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

7768 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1738 points

62% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1069 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8527 points

8934 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1771 points

65% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1072 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

75% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

75% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.9 GHz

49% significantly higher clock speed

2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz

34% slightly higher turbo speed

3.5 GHz

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

176th of 1,089

211th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop

Xeon E5 v4 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 July

2016 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-1600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 7 3800XT vs Xeon E5-2690 v4 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2690 v4 performs better than the Ryzen 7 3800XT. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 3800XT has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2690 v4 has significantly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 3800XT that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 3800XT. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 3800XT has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2690 v4. Also, the Ryzen 7 3800XT has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 3800XT CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2690 v4 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 3800XT has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.