Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7600X3D

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 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

5940 points
6035 points
1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5278 points
9622 points
82% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6174 points
26% slightly better multitasking score
4899 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6288 points
34% slightly better heavy workload score
4684 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

163.08 points
192.43 points
17% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
100% significantly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
300% significantly more threads
6

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz
4.10 GHz
64% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.3 GHz
4.7 GHz
42% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

120 W
65 W
84% 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

254th of 1,089
248th 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
2024 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600
DDR5

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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Xeon E5-2680 v3 vs Ryzen 5 7600X3D comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 7600X3D is faster than the Xeon E5-2680 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2680 v3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2680 v3 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 7600X3D. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2680 v3 has 12 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 7600X3D. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7600X3D. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 7600X3D has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2680 v3. Also, the Ryzen 5 7600X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7600X3D outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2680 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 E5-2680 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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