Intel Xeon E5-1660 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 7 7700

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 8 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 7700

Price

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$ 199.26

$ 77.10 significantly less expensive

$ 276.36

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4392 points

10741 points

144% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5377 points

12741 points

136% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4064 points

10051 points

147% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3979 points

9837 points

147% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

148.95 points

266.15 points

78% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8091 points

14475 points

78% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1373 points

2771 points

101% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7100 points

14835 points

108% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1291 points

2879 points

123% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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 GHz

3.80 GHz

26% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz

5.3 GHz

51% significantly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

140 W

65 W

115% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

401st of 1,089

74th 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

2023 January

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 E5-1660 v3 vs Ryzen 7 7700 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 7700 performs better than the Xeon E5-1660 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1660 v3 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 7700 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-1660 v3. Also, the Ryzen 7 7700 has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 7700 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-1660 v3 thanks to a significantly 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 E5-1660 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.