AMD Ryzen 7 7700X vs Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 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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$ 246.84

$ 1031.06 significantly less expensive

$ 1277.90

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

10008 points

20% slightly better overall score

8324 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12170 points

96% significantly better gaming score

6186 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9291 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

9116 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9088 points

9598 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

281.95 points

25% slightly higher Blender score

224.42 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

15466 points

87% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

8264 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2977 points

180% 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

4.50 GHz

73% significantly higher clock speed

2.60 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.4 GHz

49% significantly 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

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

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

89th of 1,089

134th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7

Xeon E5 v4 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 September

2016 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5

DDR4-1600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 7 7700X vs Xeon E5-2697A v4 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 7700X beats the Xeon E5-2697A v4 in overall performance. 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 7700X. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has 16 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 7700X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7700X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 7700X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2697A v4. Also, the Ryzen 7 7700X has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 7700X 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 info from our database shows that the Ryzen 7 7700X has more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-2697A v4. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 7 7700X.

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 7700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.