AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1900X vs Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3

Compare AMD Ryzen Threadripper 8 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 14 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3

Price

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$ 235.99

$ 189.95

$ 46.04 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5786 points

7% slightly better overall score

5393 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7050 points

43% significantly better gaming score

4919 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5345 points

5546 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5212 points

5592 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

140.77 points

1% slightly higher Blender score

138.77 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5474 points

8196 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1162 points

65% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

703 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5997 points

6085 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1191 points

42% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

833 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

75% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

75% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz

89% significantly higher clock speed

2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

33% slightly higher turbo speed

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

269th of 1,089

305th of 1,089

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 E5-2683 v3 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen Threadripper 1900X is faster than the Xeon E5-2683 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2683 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2683 v3 has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Ryzen Threadripper 1900X 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 E5-2683 v3. The Xeon E5-2683 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.