AMD Ryzen 7 5700U vs Intel Xeon E5-2690 v3

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Mobile 8 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 12 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 912.90
$ 415.02
$ 497.88 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4897 points
5502 points
12% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6449 points
22% slightly better gaming score
5267 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4413 points
5565 points
26% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4297 points
5563 points
29% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4322 points
5872 points
35% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

118.70 points
165.47 points
39% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5138 points
6942 points
35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1359 points
34% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1009 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5383 points
7090 points
31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1391 points
29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1072 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
12
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
24
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.8 GHz
2.6 GHz
44% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz
22% slightly higher turbo speed
3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
800% significantly lower TDP
135 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

356th of 1,089
294th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Mobile
Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December
2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR4-1600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 7 5700U vs Xeon E5-2690 v3 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2690 v3 beats the Ryzen 7 5700U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5700U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2690 v3 has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 5700U that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5700U. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2690 v3 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 5700U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5700U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 5700U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2690 v3 CPU because of its significantly 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 5700U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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