AMD Ryzen 7 5800 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7246 points
8324 points
14% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9033 points
46% significantly better gaming score
6186 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6679 points
9116 points
36% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6542 points
9598 points
46% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

191.07 points
224.42 points
17% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8758 points
5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
8264 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2080 points
95% 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

3.4 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

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

175th 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

2021 December
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 5800 vs Xeon E5-2697A v4 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 is faster than the Ryzen 7 5800. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5800 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 5800 that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5800. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 5800 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2697A v4. Also, the Ryzen 7 5800 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 5800 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. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Xeon E5-2697A v4 also has slightly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5800 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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