AMD Ryzen 7 5700G vs Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 5000 G-Series Desktop 8 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4

Price

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$ 184.99

$ 1092.91 significantly less expensive

$ 1277.90

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7430 points

8324 points

12% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8722 points

40% slightly better gaming score

6186 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7004 points

9116 points

30% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6877 points

9598 points

39% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

196.94 points

224.42 points

13% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8946 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

8264 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2013 points

89% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1062 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz

46% significantly higher clock speed

2.60 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

27% slightly higher turbo speed

3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

123% significantly lower TDP

145 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

Identical

4 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

40 MiB

150% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

168th of 1,089

134th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 5000 G-Series Desktop

Xeon E5 v4 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 April

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 5700G vs Xeon E5-2697A v4 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 beats the Ryzen 7 5700G in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5700G has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 5700G has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5700G. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 5700G has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2697A v4. Also, the Ryzen 7 5700G has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 5700G CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2697A 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 data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Xeon E5-2697A v4 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 5700G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.