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

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 212.99
$ 1064.91 significantly less expensive
$ 1277.90

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7399 points
8324 points
12% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8984 points
45% significantly better gaming score
6186 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6877 points
9116 points
32% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6735 points
9598 points
42% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

207.23 points
224.42 points
8% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9706 points
17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
8264 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2147 points
102% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1062 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
16
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
32
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.40 GHz
30% slightly 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

2
4
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

32 MiB
40 MiB
25% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

170th of 1,089
134th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop
Xeon E5 v4 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 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 5700X vs Xeon E5-2697A v4 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 5700X performs better than the Xeon E5-2697A v4. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2697A v4 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 5700X. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has 16 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 5700X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5700X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5700X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2697A v4. Also, the Ryzen 7 5700X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 5700X 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. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Xeon E5-2697A v4 also has slightly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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