Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4 vs AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D

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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Price

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$ 1016.08
$ 329.99
$ 686.09 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6682 points
6994 points
4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6240 points
8202 points
31% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6819 points
3% slightly better multitasking score
6575 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6860 points
6% slightly better heavy workload score
6440 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

200.70 points
7% slightly higher Blender score
187.18 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8934 points
10106 points
13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1072 points
1922 points
79% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

14
75% significantly more cores
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

28
75% significantly more threads
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz
3.58 GHz
37% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz
4.1 GHz
17% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

135 W
105 W
28% slightly 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
194th 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

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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Xeon E5-2690 v4 vs Ryzen 7 5700X3D specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2690 v4 is faster than the Ryzen 7 5700X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5700X3D has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2690 v4 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 5700X3D. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2690 v4 has 14 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 5700X3D. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5700X3D. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 5700X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2690 v4. Also, the Ryzen 7 5700X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 5700X3D outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2690 v4 thanks to a slightly 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.

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