Intel Xeon E5-2637 v4 vs AMD Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 4 core CPU vs AMD 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2637 v4

AMD Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4813 points

4985 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5729 points

6530 points

13% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4521 points

0.56% slightly better multitasking score

4496 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4429 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

4354 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

68.37 points

87.35 points

27% slightly higher Blender 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

3.5 GHz

59% significantly higher clock speed

2.20 GHz

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

366th of 1,089

350th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v4 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2637 v4 vs Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition performs better than the Xeon E5-2637 v4. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2637 v4 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Xeon E5-2637 v4 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2637 v4. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2637 v4 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2637 v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.