Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7600X3D

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 14 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

6066 points
0.51% slightly better overall score
6035 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5717 points
9622 points
68% 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

6198 points
32% slightly better heavy workload score
4684 points

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Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

195.63 points
1% slightly higher Blender score
192.43 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

14
133% significantly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

28
366% significantly more threads
6

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz
4.10 GHz
70% 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

247th of 1,089
248th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v4 Family
Ryzen 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 February
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 v4 vs Ryzen 5 7600X3D specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2680 v4 is faster than the Ryzen 5 7600X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7600X3D has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2680 v4 has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 7600X3D has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7600X3D. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7600X3D has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2680 v4. Also, the Ryzen 5 7600X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7600X3D 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.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2680 v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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