AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X vs Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4

Compare AMD Ryzen Threadripper 16 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4

Price

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$ 850.00

$ 427.90 significantly less expensive

$ 1277.90

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7764 points

8324 points

7% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7302 points

18% slightly better gaming score

6186 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7916 points

9116 points

15% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7971 points

9598 points

20% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

262.92 points

17% slightly higher Blender score

224.42 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7983 points

8264 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1180 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1062 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz

30% slightly higher clock speed

2.60 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

11% slightly higher turbo speed

3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

180 W

145 W

24% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

4 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB

40 MiB

25% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

154th of 1,089

134th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen Threadripper

Xeon E5 v4 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 July

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 1950X vs Xeon E5-2697A v4 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X beats the Xeon E5-2697A v4 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2697A v4 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2697A v4. Also, the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2697A v4 outputs less heat than Ryzen Threadripper 1950X 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 1950X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon E5-2697A v4. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X.

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 1950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.