Intel Xeon E5-1660 vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X

Compare Intel Xeon E5 Family 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO Desktop 8 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

3673 points

2% slightly better overall score

3588 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4854 points

5548 points

14% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3294 points

11% slightly better multitasking score

2965 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3198 points

10% slightly better heavy workload score

2883 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

65.07 points

137.16 points

110% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4536 points

6064 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

761 points

903 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3040 points

5310 points

74% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

618 points

1071 points

73% 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

3.3 GHz

3.4 GHz

3% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

3.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W

95 W

36% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

465th of 1,089

476th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 Family

Ryzen 7 PRO Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February

2017 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-1660 vs Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-1660 beats the Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Xeon E5-1660 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-1660. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-1660. Despite this, the Xeon E5-1660 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X outputs less heat than Xeon E5-1660 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 Xeon E5-1660 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.