Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4 vs AMD Ryzen 5 8400F

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 14 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 8000 Series 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 1016.08
$ 165.69
$ 850.39 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6682 points
7722 points
15% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6240 points
10390 points
66% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6819 points
6857 points
0.56% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6860 points
3% slightly better heavy workload score
6632 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

200.70 points
11% slightly higher Blender score
179.45 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

14
133% significantly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

28
133% significantly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz
4.2 GHz
61% 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

211th of 1,089
157th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v4 Family
Ryzen 8000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 February
2024 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 v4 vs Ryzen 5 8400F specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 8400F 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2690 v4 has significantly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 8400F that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 8400F. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 8400F has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2690 v4. Also, the Ryzen 5 8400F has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 8400F 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.

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 v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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