Intel Xeon E5-1650 v2 vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X

Xeon E5-1650 v2 vs Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X is faster than the Xeon E5-1650 v2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1650 v2 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X has slightly more cores than the Xeon E5-1650 v2. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Xeon E5-1650 v2. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-1650 v2. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1650 v2 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X. Also, the Xeon E5-1650 v2 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X outputs less heat than Xeon E5-1650 v2 thanks to a slightly 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 Xeon E5-1650 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.