AMD Ryzen 7 5800X vs Intel Xeon E5-2640 v3

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

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Intel Xeon E5-2640 v3

Price

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$ 219.80

$ 63.20

$ 156.60 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7869 points

54% significantly better overall score

5079 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9478 points

82% significantly better gaming score

5205 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7328 points

44% significantly better multitasking score

5069 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7169 points

39% slightly better heavy workload score

5131 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

213.11 points

88% significantly higher Blender score

113.01 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10085 points

92% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

5241 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2119 points

111% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1004 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10211 points

89% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

5384 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2193 points

110% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1040 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz

46% significantly higher clock speed

2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz

38% slightly higher turbo speed

3.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W

90 W

16% slightly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

100% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

768 GiB

499% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

151st of 1,089

341st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2014 August

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 5800X vs Xeon E5-2640 v3 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 5800X is faster than the Xeon E5-2640 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2640 v3 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5800X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2640 v3. Also, the Ryzen 7 5800X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2640 v3 outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 5800X thanks to a 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 5800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.