AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT vs Intel Xeon E5-2695 v2

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 12 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 12 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2695 v2

Price

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$ 389.99

$ 197.70

$ 192.29 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8378 points

80% significantly better overall score

4633 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8533 points

87% significantly better gaming score

4548 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8330 points

79% significantly better multitasking score

4652 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8329 points

79% significantly better heavy workload score

4653 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

275.17 points

153% significantly higher Blender score

108.71 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10007 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

6355 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1698 points

184% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

596 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9918 points

152% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

3922 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1737 points

271% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

467 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz

58% significantly higher clock speed

2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz

46% significantly higher turbo speed

3.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W

9% slightly lower TDP

115 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

131st of 1,089

377th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop

Xeon E5 v2 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 July

2013 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 9 3900XT vs Xeon E5-2695 v2 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 3900XT performs better than the Xeon E5-2695 v2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2695 v2 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 3900XT has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2695 v2. Also, the Ryzen 9 3900XT has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 3900XT CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2695 v2 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 9 3900XT has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.