Intel Xeon E5-2620 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 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

3203 points

3588 points

12% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4260 points

5548 points

30% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2869 points

2965 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2793 points

2883 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

75.06 points

137.16 points

82% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3929 points

6064 points

54% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

901 points

903 points

0.22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4121 points

5310 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

947 points

1071 points

13% slightly 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

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

85 W

11% slightly lower TDP

95 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

510th of 1,089

476th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Ryzen 7 PRO Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

2017 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2620 v3 vs Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X performs better than the Xeon E5-2620 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2620 v3 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 E5-2620 v3. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Xeon E5-2620 v3. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2620 v3. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2620 v3. Also, the Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Xeon E5-2620 v3 CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X CPU because of its 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 E5-2620 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.