Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 vs AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 14 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen Z1 8 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

6328 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5717 points

7752 points

35% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6174 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

5895 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6198 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

5789 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

195.63 points

15% slightly higher Blender score

169.56 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6901 points

9595 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1027 points

2167 points

111% 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

3.30 GHz

37% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.3 GHz

5.1 GHz

54% significantly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

120 W

28 W

328% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

247th of 1,089

234th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v4 Family

Ryzen Z1

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2680 v4 vs Ryzen Z1 Extreme comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen Z1 Extreme 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.

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 Z1 Extreme that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen Z1 Extreme. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen Z1 Extreme has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2680 v4. Also, the Ryzen Z1 Extreme has a significantly higher turbo speed.

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.