AMD Ryzen 9 5950X vs Intel Xeon E5-2698 v3

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 16 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2698 v3

Price

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$ 287.24

$ 442.71 significantly less expensive

$ 729.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

11194 points

83% significantly better overall score

6109 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9928 points

82% significantly better gaming score

5454 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

11640 points

83% significantly better multitasking score

6350 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

11833 points

83% significantly better heavy workload score

6447 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

406.94 points

113% significantly higher Blender score

190.75 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

12256 points

97% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

6221 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2148 points

126% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

950 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

12029 points

63% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

7350 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2207 points

111% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1043 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

3.4 GHz

47% significantly higher clock speed

2.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz

36% slightly higher turbo speed

3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W

28% slightly lower TDP

135 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

66th of 1,089

245th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2014 August

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 5950X vs Xeon E5-2698 v3 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 5950X is faster than the Xeon E5-2698 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2698 v3 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 5950X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2698 v3. Also, the Ryzen 9 5950X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 5950X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2698 v3 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 9 5950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.