Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 12 core CPU vs AMD 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3

AMD Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5940 points

9% slightly better overall score

5427 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5278 points

7307 points

38% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6174 points

26% slightly better multitasking score

4865 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6288 points

32% slightly better heavy workload score

4745 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

163.08 points

2% slightly higher Blender score

159.68 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz

3.20 GHz

28% slightly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

254th of 1,089

300th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2680 v3 vs Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition performs better 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2680 v3 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2680 v3.

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.