Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4 vs AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 14 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D

Price

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$ 1016.08

$ 455.05

$ 561.03 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6682 points

10982 points

64% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6240 points

13108 points

110% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6819 points

10252 points

50% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6860 points

10031 points

46% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

200.70 points

325.43 points

62% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8934 points

18346 points

105% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1072 points

3336 points

211% 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

4.7 GHz

80% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz

5.2 GHz

48% significantly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

135 W

120 W

12% 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

70th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v4 Family

Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 February

2024 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

DDR5

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 9800X3D benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 9800X3D 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.

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 9800X3D. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2690 v4 has 14 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2690 v4. Also, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 9800X3D 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.