Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 9 7950X

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 14 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 189.95
$ 257.41 significantly less expensive
$ 447.36

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5393 points
16669 points
209% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4919 points
14068 points
185% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5546 points
17588 points
217% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5592 points
17965 points
221% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

138.77 points
568.01 points
309% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8196 points
18904 points
130% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

703 points
2875 points
308% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6085 points
19297 points
217% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

833 points
2976 points
257% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

14
16
14% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

28
32
14% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2 GHz
4.5 GHz
125% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3 GHz
5.7 GHz
89% significantly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

120 W
41% slightly lower TDP
170 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

40
66% significantly more pcie lanes
24

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
100% significantly more memory channels
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

768 GiB
499% significantly more supported memory
128 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

305th of 1,089
11th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family
Ryzen 9 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August
2022 September

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
Yes

Xeon E5-2683 v3 vs Ryzen 9 7950X comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 7950X beats the Xeon E5-2683 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2683 v3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 7950X has slightly more cores than the Xeon E5-2683 v3. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7950X has 16 cores compared to 14 cores found in the Xeon E5-2683 v3. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2683 v3. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7950X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2683 v3. Also, the Ryzen 9 7950X has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Xeon E5-2683 v3 CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 9 7950X CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2683 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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