Intel Xeon E5-2620 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9 16 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
14004 points
337% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4260 points
12364 points
190% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2869 points
14599 points
408% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2793 points
14860 points
432% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

75.06 points
475.58 points
533% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3929 points
14865 points
278% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

901 points
2684 points
197% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4121 points
16083 points
290% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

947 points
2764 points
191% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
16
166% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
32
166% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz
2.50 GHz
4% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.2 GHz
5.4 GHz
68% significantly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

85 W
55 W
54% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
100% significantly more memory channels
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

510th of 1,089
31st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family
Ryzen 9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August
2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600
DDR5

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 9 7945HX specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 7945HX beats the Xeon E5-2620 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2620 v3 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 7945HX has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Xeon E5-2620 v3 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2620 v3. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7945HX has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2620 v3. Also, the Ryzen 9 7945HX has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 7945HX outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2620 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 E5-2620 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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