Intel Xeon E5-2689 vs AMD Ryzen 7 7700

Compare Intel 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 7 7700

Price

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$ 109.95

$ 166.41 significantly less expensive

$ 276.36

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4209 points

10739 points

155% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4875 points

12739 points

161% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3976 points

10048 points

152% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3900 points

9834 points

152% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

78.82 points

266.15 points

237% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

115 W

65 W

76% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

418th of 1,089

74th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Xeon E5-2689 vs Ryzen 7 7700 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 7700 is faster than the Xeon E5-2689. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2689 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads.

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 E5-2689 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.