Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7600X3D

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 14 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7000 Series 6 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

6668 points
7004 points
5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6258 points
10197 points
62% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6793 points
13% slightly better multitasking score
5978 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6826 points
18% slightly better heavy workload score
5757 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

200.70 points
4% slightly higher Blender score
192.43 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

14
133% significantly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

28
366% significantly more threads
6

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz
4.10 GHz
57% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz
4.7 GHz
34% 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

4
100% significantly more memory channels
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

221st of 1,107
202nd of 1,107

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v4 Family
Ryzen 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 February
2024 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600
DDR5

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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Xeon E5-2690 v4 vs Ryzen 5 7600X3D benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 7600X3D is faster than the Xeon E5-2690 v4. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2690 v4 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2690 v4 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 7600X3D. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2690 v4 has 14 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 7600X3D. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7600X3D. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 7600X3D has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2690 v4. Also, the Ryzen 5 7600X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7600X3D outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2690 v4 thanks to a significantly 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 E5-2690 v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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