Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4 vs AMD Ryzen 5 8640HS

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 14 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 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

6682 points

4% slightly better overall score

6405 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6240 points

9018 points

44% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6819 points

21% slightly better multitasking score

5593 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6860 points

26% slightly better heavy workload score

5403 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

200.70 points

30% slightly higher Blender score

153.60 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8934 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

7982 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1072 points

2119 points

97% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

133% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

133% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz

3.50 GHz

34% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz

4.9 GHz

40% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

135 W

28 W

382% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

211th of 1,089

227th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v4 Family

Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

DDR5 (FP7r2)

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2690 v4 vs Ryzen 5 8640HS comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2690 v4 beats the Ryzen 5 8640HS in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 8640HS has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2690 v4 has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 8640HS has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 8640HS. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 8640HS has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2690 v4. Also, the Ryzen 5 8640HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 8640HS 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.

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