AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X vs Intel Xeon E3-1270 v6

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 PRO Desktop 8 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E3 v6 Family 4 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

3588 points

0.62% slightly better overall score

3566 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5548 points

5948 points

7% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2965 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

2868 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2883 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

2754 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

137.16 points

54% significantly higher Blender score

88.58 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5310 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

4634 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1071 points

1433 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

3.4 GHz

3.79 GHz

11% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

4.2 GHz

10% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

72 W

31% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

300% significantly more L2 cache

1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

476th of 1,089

478th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 PRO Desktop

Xeon E3 v6 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June

2017 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X vs Xeon E3-1270 v6 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X performs better than the Xeon E3-1270 v6. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1270 v6 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X has significantly more cores than the Xeon E3-1270 v6. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Xeon E3-1270 v6. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1270 v6. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E3-1270 v6 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X. Also, the Xeon E3-1270 v6 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E3-1270 v6 outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X has significantly more L2 cache than the Xeon E3-1270 v6. The Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X 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 PRO 1700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.