Intel Xeon E5-1650 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 7 7700X

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 7 7700X

Price

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$ 1356.00

$ 246.84

$ 1109.16 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3769 points

10008 points

165% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5233 points

12170 points

132% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3308 points

9291 points

180% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3206 points

9088 points

183% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

90.40 points

281.95 points

211% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5154 points

15168 points

194% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1099 points

2857 points

159% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5477 points

15466 points

182% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1201 points

2977 points

147% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

4.50 GHz

28% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

5.4 GHz

42% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

140 W

105 W

33% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

453rd of 1,089

89th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

2022 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1333

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-1650 v3 vs Ryzen 7 7700X benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 7700X beats the Xeon E5-1650 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1650 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 7700X has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Xeon E5-1650 v3 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-1650 v3. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 7700X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-1650 v3. Also, the Ryzen 7 7700X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 7700X outputs less heat than Xeon E5-1650 v3 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 Xeon E5-1650 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.