Intel Xeon E5-2470 v2 vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 10 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

5777 points

61% significantly better overall score

3588 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4385 points

5548 points

26% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6307 points

112% significantly better multitasking score

2965 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6615 points

129% significantly better heavy workload score

2883 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

98.72 points

137.16 points

38% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5077 points

6064 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

570 points

903 points

58% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3155 points

5310 points

68% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

477 points

1071 points

124% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

25% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

25% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz

3.4 GHz

41% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.2 GHz

3.8 GHz

18% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

Identical

95 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

49% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

270th of 1,089

476th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v2 Family

Ryzen 7 PRO Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 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 E5-2470 v2 vs Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X beats the Xeon E5-2470 v2 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2470 v2 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2470 v2 has slightly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2470 v2. Also, the Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 E5-2470 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.