Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7500F

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 14 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 211.95
$ 188.99
$ 22.96 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6066 points
7857 points
29% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5717 points
10525 points
84% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6174 points
6994 points
13% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6198 points
6774 points
9% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

195.63 points
197.05 points
0.73% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6901 points
12599 points
82% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1027 points
2751 points
167% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

14
133% significantly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

28
133% significantly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz
3.70 GHz
54% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.3 GHz
5 GHz
51% significantly 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

247th of 1,089
152nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v4 Family
Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 February
2023 July

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 v4 vs Ryzen 5 7500F specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 7500F beats the Xeon E5-2680 v4 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2680 v4 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2680 v4 has significantly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 7500F that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7500F. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 7500F has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2680 v4. Also, the Ryzen 5 7500F has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7500F outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2680 v4 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 v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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