Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 3700

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 14 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO Desktop 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 3700

Price

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$ 211.95

$ 1371.05 significantly less expensive

$ 1583.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6066 points

6502 points

7% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5717 points

7833 points

37% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6174 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

6045 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6198 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

5906 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

195.63 points

6% slightly higher Blender score

184.03 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6901 points

7993 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1027 points

1652 points

60% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

75% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

75% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz

3.6 GHz

49% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.3 GHz

4.4 GHz

33% 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

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

247th of 1,089

220th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v4 Family

Ryzen 7 PRO Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 February

2019 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

DDR4

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 7 PRO 3700 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 is faster than the Xeon E5-2680 v4. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2680 v4 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2680 v4 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2680 v4 has 14 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2680 v4.

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.