Intel Xeon E5-2689 vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X

Compare Intel 8 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4209 points

17% slightly better overall score

3588 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4875 points

5548 points

13% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3976 points

34% slightly better multitasking score

2965 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3900 points

35% slightly better heavy workload score

2883 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

78.82 points

137.16 points

74% 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

95 W

21% slightly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

418th of 1,089

476th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 PRO Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Xeon E5-2689 vs Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2689 is faster than the Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. The Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2689 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2689 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.