Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4 vs AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 14 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 8 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

8878 points

32% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6240 points

10890 points

74% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6819 points

8202 points

20% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6860 points

8008 points

16% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

200.70 points

244.42 points

21% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8934 points

11003 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1072 points

2353 points

119% 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

3.80 GHz

46% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz

5.1 GHz

45% significantly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

135 W

54 W

150% 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

116th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v4 Family

Ryzen 7

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 7 7840HS comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2690 v4 beats the Ryzen 7 7840HS in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 7840HS 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 7840HS has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7840HS. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7840HS has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2690 v4.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2690 v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.