Intel Xeon E5-2660 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7640HS

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 10 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7000 Series 6 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

3996 points
6306 points
57% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4213 points
8479 points
101% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3900 points
5619 points
44% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3849 points
5454 points
41% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

129.03 points
163.82 points
26% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5959 points
9274 points
55% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

985 points
2302 points
133% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

10
66% significantly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

20
66% significantly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz
4.30 GHz
65% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.3 GHz
5 GHz
51% significantly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W
54 W
94% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
100% significantly more memory channels
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

436th of 1,089
235th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family
Ryzen 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August
2023 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
-

Xeon E5-2660 v3 vs Ryzen 5 7640HS benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 7640HS is faster than the Xeon E5-2660 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2660 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2660 v3 has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 7640HS has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7640HS. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7640HS has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2660 v3. Also, the Ryzen 5 7640HS has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7640HS outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2660 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 E5-2660 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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