AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS vs Intel Xeon E5-2687W v4

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 8 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 12 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

5821 points

6031 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7228 points

18% slightly better gaming score

6083 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5452 points

5984 points

9% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5384 points

5939 points

10% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

166.92 points

185.69 points

11% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9022 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

7665 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2060 points

88% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1092 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.30 GHz

9% slightly higher clock speed

3.00 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.1 GHz

45% significantly higher turbo speed

3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

28 W

471% significantly lower TDP

160 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

166% significantly more L2 cache

3 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

30 MiB

87% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

266th of 1,089

249th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7

Xeon E5 v4 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5 (FP7r2)

DDR4-1600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 7 8840HS vs Xeon E5-2687W v4 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2687W v4 beats the Ryzen 7 8840HS in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 8840HS has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2687W v4 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 8840HS has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 8840HS. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 8840HS has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2687W v4. Also, the Ryzen 7 8840HS has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 8840HS CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2687W v4 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 8840HS has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon E5-2687W v4. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2687W v4 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 7 8840HS.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 8840HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.