AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1900X vs Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3

Compare AMD Ryzen Threadripper 8 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 12 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3

Price

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$ 235.99

$ 223.79

$ 12.20 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5786 points

5940 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7050 points

33% slightly better gaming score

5278 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5345 points

6174 points

15% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5212 points

6288 points

20% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

140.77 points

163.08 points

15% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5474 points

6648 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1162 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

941 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5997 points

6340 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1191 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

996 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz

52% significantly higher clock speed

2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

21% slightly higher turbo speed

3.3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

180 W

120 W

49% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

284th of 1,118

268th of 1,118

Family

The product line

Ryzen Threadripper

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 August

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 Threadripper 1900X vs Xeon E5-2680 v3 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2680 v3 beats the Ryzen Threadripper 1900X in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen Threadripper 1900X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2680 v3 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen Threadripper 1900X. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2680 v3 has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen Threadripper 1900X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen Threadripper 1900X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen Threadripper 1900X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2680 v3. Also, the Ryzen Threadripper 1900X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2680 v3 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.

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 Threadripper 1900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.