Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 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

5169 points

11380 points

120% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4558 points

10581 points

132% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5431 points

11723 points

115% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5595 points

11982 points

114% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

106.21 points

538.07 points

406% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz

2.5 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

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

330th of 1,089

61st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

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 E5-2630 v3 vs Ryzen 9 9955HX comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 9955HX is faster than the Xeon E5-2630 v3. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2630 v3 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 9955HX has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Xeon E5-2630 v3 that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2630 v3. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 9955HX has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2630 v3. Also, the Ryzen 9 9955HX has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 9955HX outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2630 v3 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2630 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.