AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1900X vs Intel Xeon E5-2470 v2

Compare AMD Ryzen Threadripper 8 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 235.99
$ 1728.71 significantly less expensive
$ 1964.70

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5786 points
0.16% slightly better overall score
5777 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7050 points
60% significantly better gaming score
4385 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5345 points
6307 points
17% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5212 points
6615 points
26% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

140.77 points
42% slightly higher Blender score
98.72 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5474 points
7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
5077 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1162 points
103% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
570 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5997 points
90% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
3155 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1191 points
149% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
477 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
10
25% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
20
25% slightly more threads

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 GHz
25% slightly higher turbo speed
3.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

180 W
95 W
89% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
33% slightly more memory channels
3

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

269th of 1,089
270th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen Threadripper
Xeon E5 v2 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 August
2014 February

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 Threadripper 1900X vs Xeon E5-2470 v2 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen Threadripper 1900X is faster than the Xeon E5-2470 v2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2470 v2 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2470 v2 has slightly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen Threadripper 1900X that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen Threadripper 1900X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen Threadripper 1900X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2470 v2. Also, the Ryzen Threadripper 1900X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2470 v2 outputs less heat than Ryzen Threadripper 1900X thanks to a significantly 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 Threadripper 1900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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