Intel Xeon E5-2678 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 7 7730U

Compare Intel 12 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 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

5409 points

5419 points

0.18% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5325 points

6732 points

26% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5414 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

5010 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5392 points

9% slightly better heavy workload score

4902 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

164.10 points

26% slightly higher Blender score

130.22 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6701 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

6209 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1012 points

1630 points

61% 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

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

120 W

15 W

700% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

303rd of 1,089

302nd of 1,089

Family

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Ryzen 7

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Xeon E5-2678 v3 vs Ryzen 7 7730U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 7730U beats the Xeon E5-2678 v3 in overall performance. 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 7 7730U has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7730U. The Ryzen 7 7730U 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.

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 E5-2678 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.