Intel Xeon E5-2690 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 7 5700X

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 12 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 7 5700X

Price

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$ 415.02

$ 212.99

$ 202.03 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5502 points

7399 points

34% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5267 points

8984 points

70% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5565 points

6877 points

23% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5563 points

6735 points

21% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5872 points

6914 points

17% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

165.47 points

207.23 points

25% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6942 points

9632 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1009 points

2079 points

106% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7090 points

9706 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1072 points

2147 points

100% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz

3.40 GHz

30% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz

4.6 GHz

31% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

135 W

65 W

107% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

294th of 1,089

170th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Ryzen 7 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2690 v3 vs Ryzen 7 5700X benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 5700X beats the Xeon E5-2690 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2690 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2690 v3 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 5700X has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5700X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 5700X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2690 v3. Also, the Ryzen 7 5700X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 5700X outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2690 v3 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 E5-2690 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.