Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4 vs AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D

Xeon E5-2690 v4 vs Ryzen 7 7800X3D benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D beats the Xeon E5-2690 v4 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2690 v4 in all gaming tests too.

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 7800X3D. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2690 v4 has 14 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 7800X3D. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7800X3D. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2690 v4.

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.