AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1900X vs Intel Xeon E5-2687W v4

Compare AMD Ryzen Threadripper 8 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 12 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 235.99
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$ 9947.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5786 points
6031 points
4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7050 points
15% slightly better gaming score
6083 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5345 points
5984 points
11% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5212 points
5939 points
13% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

140.77 points
185.69 points
31% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5997 points
7665 points
27% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1191 points
9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1092 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
12
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
24
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
26% slightly higher clock speed
3.00 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
14% slightly higher turbo speed
3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

180 W
160 W
12% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
Identical
4

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
33% slightly more L2 cache
3 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
30 MiB
87% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

269th of 1,089
249th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen Threadripper
Xeon E5 v4 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 August
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 Threadripper 1900X vs Xeon E5-2687W v4 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2687W v4 is faster than the Ryzen Threadripper 1900X. 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 E5-2687W v4 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen Threadripper 1900X. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2687W v4 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 slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2687W v4. Also, the Ryzen Threadripper 1900X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2687W v4 outputs less heat than Ryzen Threadripper 1900X thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen Threadripper 1900X has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon E5-2687W v4. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2687W v4 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen Threadripper 1900X.

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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