Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 vs AMD Ryzen 5 8640HS

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 14 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 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

6405 points

5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5717 points

9018 points

57% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6174 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

5593 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6198 points

14% slightly better heavy workload score

5403 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

195.63 points

27% slightly higher Blender score

153.60 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6901 points

7982 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1027 points

2119 points

106% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

133% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

133% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz

3.50 GHz

45% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.3 GHz

4.9 GHz

48% significantly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

120 W

28 W

328% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

247th of 1,089

227th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v4 Family

Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

DDR5 (FP7r2)

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2680 v4 vs Ryzen 5 8640HS benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 8640HS 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2680 v4 has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 8640HS has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 8640HS. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 8640HS has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2680 v4. Also, the Ryzen 5 8640HS has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 8640HS 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.