Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4 vs AMD Ryzen 7 5700

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 14 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5000 Series 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 7 5700

Price

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$ 1016.08

$ 157.50

$ 858.58 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6682 points

7663 points

14% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6240 points

9257 points

48% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6819 points

7115 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6860 points

6951 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

200.70 points

7% slightly higher Blender score

187.49 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8934 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

8779 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1072 points

1998 points

86% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

75% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

75% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz

3.70 GHz

42% 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

211th of 1,089

160th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v4 Family

Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 February

2024 January

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 v4 vs Ryzen 7 5700 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 5700 performs better 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2690 v4 has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 5700 has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5700. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 5700 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2690 v4. Also, the Ryzen 7 5700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 5700 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.