Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 12 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 16 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

11380 points

91% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5278 points

10581 points

100% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6174 points

11723 points

89% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6288 points

11982 points

90% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

163.08 points

538.07 points

229% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz

Identical

2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.3 GHz

5.4 GHz

63% significantly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

120 W

55 W

118% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

268th of 1,118

66th of 1,118

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2680 v3 vs Ryzen 9 9955HX comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 9955HX 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 9955HX has slightly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Xeon E5-2680 v3 has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2680 v3. Both the Xeon E5-2680 v3 and Ryzen 9 9955HX have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 9955HX has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 9955HX 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.

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 E5-2680 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.