Intel Xeon E5-2678 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7640HS

Compare Intel 12 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

5409 points

6306 points

16% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5325 points

8479 points

59% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5414 points

5619 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5392 points

5454 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

164.10 points

0.17% slightly higher Blender score

163.82 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6701 points

9274 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1012 points

2302 points

127% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

120 W

54 W

122% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

315th of 1,118

247th of 1,118

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Xeon E5-2678 v3 vs Ryzen 5 7640HS comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 7640HS performs better than the Xeon E5-2678 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2678 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2678 v3 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 7640HS has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7640HS. The Ryzen 5 7640HS outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2678 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 E5-2678 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.