Intel Xeon E5-2620 vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 2700U

Compare Intel Xeon E5 Family 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen PRO 2000 Series 4 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

1% slightly better overall score

2666 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3212 points

4273 points

33% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2534 points

15% slightly better multitasking score

2187 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2503 points

19% slightly better heavy workload score

2096 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

38.93 points

55.59 points

42% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1902 points

2513 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

390 points

847 points

117% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2 GHz

2.2 GHz

10% slightly 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

15 W

533% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

591st of 1,089

600th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 Family

Ryzen PRO 2000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February

2017 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2620 vs Ryzen 7 PRO 2700U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2620 is faster than the Ryzen 7 PRO 2700U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 PRO 2700U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2620 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 PRO 2700U. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2620 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 7 PRO 2700U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 PRO 2700U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 PRO 2700U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2620. Also, the Ryzen 7 PRO 2700U has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 PRO 2700U outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2620 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 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.