AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1900X vs Intel Xeon E5-2696 v3

Compare AMD Ryzen Threadripper 8 core CPU vs Intel 18 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5786 points

6495 points

12% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7050 points

23% slightly better gaming score

5724 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5345 points

6803 points

27% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5212 points

6991 points

34% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

140.77 points

231.70 points

64% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5474 points

7392 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1162 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1060 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5997 points

8186 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1191 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1134 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

125% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

125% significantly more threads

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

180 W

145 W

24% slightly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

269th of 1,089

221st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen Threadripper

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen Threadripper 1900X vs Xeon E5-2696 v3 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 is faster than the Ryzen Threadripper 1900X. Despite this, the Ryzen Threadripper 1900X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2696 v3 has significantly more cores with 18 cores whereas the Ryzen Threadripper 1900X has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen Threadripper 1900X. The Xeon E5-2696 v3 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.

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.