AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT vs Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 12 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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Price

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$ 389.99
$ 887.91 significantly less expensive
$ 1277.90

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8378 points
0.65% slightly better overall score
8324 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8533 points
37% slightly better gaming score
6186 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8330 points
9116 points
9% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8329 points
9598 points
15% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

275.17 points
22% slightly higher Blender score
224.42 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9918 points
20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
8264 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1737 points
63% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1062 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
16
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
32
33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
46% significantly higher clock speed
2.60 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz
30% slightly 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

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB
49% significantly more L2 cache
4 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB
60% significantly more L3 cache
40 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

131st of 1,089
134th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop
Xeon E5 v4 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 July
2016 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-1600

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 E5-2697A v4 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 3900XT 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has slightly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Ryzen 9 3900XT that has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 3900XT. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 3900XT has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2697A v4. Also, the Ryzen 9 3900XT has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 3900XT 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 cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 3900XT has significantly more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-2697A v4. The Ryzen 9 3900XT 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 9 3900XT has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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