Intel Xeon E5-2640 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 8 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

5079 points

41% slightly better overall score

3588 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5205 points

5548 points

6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5069 points

70% significantly better multitasking score

2965 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5131 points

77% significantly better heavy workload score

2883 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

113.01 points

137.16 points

21% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5241 points

6064 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1004 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

903 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5384 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

5310 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1040 points

1071 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz

3.4 GHz

30% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz

3.8 GHz

11% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

90 W

5% slightly lower TDP

95 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

341st of 1,089

476th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Ryzen 7 PRO Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

2017 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2640 v3 vs Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2640 v3 is faster than the Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2640 v3. Also, the Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Xeon E5-2640 v3 CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X CPU because of its slightly 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 E5-2640 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.