AMD Ryzen 7 7840H vs Intel Xeon Gold 6230

Compare AMD 8 core CPU vs Intel 2nd Generation Xeon Scalable 20 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

8985 points
9125 points
1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10717 points
85% significantly better gaming score
5766 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8377 points
10388 points
24% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8167 points
11200 points
37% slightly better heavy workload score

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Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
20
150% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
40
150% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.80 GHz
81% significantly higher clock speed
2.10 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
20 MiB
150% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
27.5 MiB
71% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

115th of 1,114
114th of 1,114

Family

The product line

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2nd Generation Xeon Scalable

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2019 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR4-2933

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

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Yes

Ryzen 7 7840H vs Xeon Gold 6230 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon Gold 6230 beats the Ryzen 7 7840H in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 7840H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon Gold 6230 has significantly more cores with 20 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 7840H that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7840H. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7840H has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon Gold 6230. The info from our database shows that the Xeon Gold 6230 has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 7840H. The Xeon Gold 6230 also has significantly 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 7840H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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