Intel Xeon E5-2620 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

2694 points

3588 points

33% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3212 points

5548 points

72% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2534 points

2965 points

17% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2503 points

2883 points

15% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

38.93 points

137.16 points

252% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2793 points

6064 points

117% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

459 points

903 points

96% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1902 points

5310 points

179% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

390 points

1071 points

174% 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

2 GHz

3.4 GHz

69% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

2.5 GHz

3.8 GHz

52% significantly 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

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

591st 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 E5-2620 vs Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X beats the Xeon E5-2620 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2620 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Xeon E5-2620 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2620. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2620. Also, the Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X has a significantly 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 E5-2620 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.