Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 7 7745HX

Compare Intel 10 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7000 Series 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

4823 points

9190 points

90% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5321 points

10842 points

103% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4658 points

8600 points

84% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4614 points

8405 points

82% significantly better heavy workload score

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3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4806 points

7934 points

65% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

152.03 points

241.01 points

58% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

25% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

25% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.90 GHz

3.60 GHz

24% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2.5 MiB

8 MiB

220% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

25 MiB

32 MiB

28% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

380th of 1,121

112th of 1,121

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Xeon E5-2666 v3 vs Ryzen 7 7745HX specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 7745HX beats the Xeon E5-2666 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2666 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 7745HX has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7745HX. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7745HX has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2666 v3. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 7745HX has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon E5-2666 v3. The Ryzen 7 7745HX also has slightly more L3 cache.

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 E5-2666 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.