Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4 vs AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 14 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D

Price

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$ 1016.08

$ 399.61

$ 616.47 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6682 points

7335 points

9% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6240 points

8938 points

43% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6819 points

0.32% slightly better multitasking score

6797 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6860 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

6646 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

200.70 points

209.61 points

4% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7768 points

10897 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1069 points

2052 points

91% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8934 points

11047 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1072 points

2117 points

97% 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

3.40 GHz

30% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz

4.5 GHz

28% 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

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

211th of 1,089

172nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v4 Family

Ryzen 7 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 February

2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

DDR4

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 7 5800X3D comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2690 v4 performs better than the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D 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 7 5800X3D has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2690 v4. Also, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 5800X3D 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.

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.