Intel Xeon E5-2650 v4 vs AMD Ryzen 7 5700X

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 12 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 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

4970 points

7425 points

49% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4831 points

9003 points

86% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5013 points

6905 points

37% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5022 points

6762 points

34% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

147.11 points

207.23 points

40% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2679 points

9632 points

259% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

554 points

2079 points

275% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3070 points

9706 points

216% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

661 points

2147 points

224% 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

2.2 GHz

3.40 GHz

54% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

2.9 GHz

4.6 GHz

58% significantly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W

65 W

61% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

372nd of 1,127

184th of 1,127

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v4 Family

Ryzen 7 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 February

2022 April

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 E5-2650 v4 vs Ryzen 7 5700X benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 5700X performs better than the Xeon E5-2650 v4. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2650 v4 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2650 v4 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 5700X. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2650 v4 has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 5700X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5700X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 5700X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2650 v4. Also, the Ryzen 7 5700X has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 5700X outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2650 v4 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 E5-2650 v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.