AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 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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Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4

Price

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$ 219.80

$ 1058.10 significantly less expensive

$ 1277.90

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7869 points

8324 points

5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9478 points

53% significantly better gaming score

6186 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7328 points

9116 points

24% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7169 points

9598 points

33% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

213.11 points

224.42 points

5% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10211 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

8264 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2193 points

106% 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

4.7 GHz

30% slightly higher turbo speed

3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W

38% slightly lower TDP

145 W

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

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

151st 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

2020 May

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 5800X vs Xeon E5-2697A v4 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2697A v4 performs better than the Ryzen 7 5800X. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5800X 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 5800X has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5800X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 5800X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2697A v4. Also, the Ryzen 7 5800X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 5800X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2697A v4 CPU because of its slightly 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 slightly 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 5800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.