Intel Xeon E5-2650 v2 vs AMD Ryzen 7 7700X

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 7 7700X

Price

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$ 185.00

$ 61.84 significantly less expensive

$ 246.84

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3764 points

10008 points

165% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4552 points

12170 points

167% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3492 points

9291 points

166% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3415 points

9088 points

166% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

71.99 points

281.95 points

291% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3234 points

15168 points

369% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

528 points

2857 points

441% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3167 points

15466 points

388% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

518 points

2977 points

474% significantly 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

4.50 GHz

73% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz

5.4 GHz

58% significantly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

10% slightly lower TDP

105 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

454th of 1,089

89th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v2 Family

Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 August

2022 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2650 v2 vs Ryzen 7 7700X comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 7700X performs better than the Xeon E5-2650 v2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2650 v2 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 7700X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2650 v2. Also, the Ryzen 7 7700X has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Xeon E5-2650 v2 CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 7 7700X CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 E5-2650 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.