Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4 vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U

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

7028 points

5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6240 points

8379 points

34% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6819 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

6623 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6860 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

6517 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

200.70 points

21% slightly higher Blender score

164.73 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8934 points

9396 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1072 points

2142 points

99% 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

3.30 GHz

26% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz

5.1 GHz

45% significantly higher turbo speed

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

211th of 1,089

191st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v4 Family

Ryzen 7 PRO

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 February

2023 June

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 PRO 7840U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2690 v4 has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U has a slightly higher clock speed than 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.