Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4 vs AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 14 core CPU vs AMD 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
4% slightly better overall score
6371 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6240 points
7734 points
23% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6819 points
14% slightly better multitasking score
5949 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6860 points
17% slightly better heavy workload score
5841 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

200.70 points
13% slightly higher Blender score
177.47 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7768 points
8534 points
9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1069 points
1861 points
74% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8934 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
8733 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1072 points
1846 points
72% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

14
75% significantly more cores
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

28
75% significantly more threads
16

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
4.9 GHz
40% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

135 W
35 W
285% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

211th of 1,089
229th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v4 Family
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 February
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

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No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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Xeon E5-2690 v4 vs Ryzen 9 6900HS comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 6900HS 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 9 6900HS has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 6900HS. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 6900HS has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2690 v4. Also, the Ryzen 9 6900HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 6900HS outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2690 v4 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.

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