AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme vs Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4

Compare AMD Ryzen Z1 8 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6328 points

8324 points

31% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7752 points

25% slightly better gaming score

6186 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5895 points

9116 points

54% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5789 points

9598 points

65% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

169.56 points

224.42 points

32% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9595 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

8264 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2167 points

104% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1062 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.30 GHz

26% slightly higher clock speed

2.60 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.1 GHz

41% slightly higher turbo speed

3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

28 W

417% significantly lower TDP

145 W

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

16 MiB

40 MiB

150% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

234th of 1,089

134th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen Z1

Xeon E5 v4 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen Z1 Extreme vs Xeon E5-2697A v4 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2697A v4 performs better than the Ryzen Z1 Extreme. Despite this, the Ryzen Z1 Extreme has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Ryzen Z1 Extreme has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen Z1 Extreme. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen Z1 Extreme has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2697A v4. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen Z1 Extreme has more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-2697A v4. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen Z1 Extreme.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen Z1 Extreme has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.