Intel Xeon E5-2690 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 12 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 8000 Series 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

5502 points

10700 points

94% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5267 points

10758 points

104% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5565 points

10731 points

92% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5563 points

10842 points

94% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

165.47 points

458.15 points

176% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz

2.9 GHz

11% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz

5.3 GHz

51% significantly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

135 W

55 W

145% 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

75th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Ryzen 8000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

2025 April

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

Xeon E5-2690 v3 vs Ryzen 9 8940HX specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 8940HX is faster than the Xeon E5-2690 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2690 v3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2690 v3 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 9 8940HX. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2690 v3 has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 9 8940HX. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 8940HX. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 8940HX has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2690 v3. Also, the Ryzen 9 8940HX has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 8940HX 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.

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