Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4 vs AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 14 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen PRO 6000 Series 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

7135 points

6% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6240 points

9019 points

44% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6819 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

6520 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6860 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

6356 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

200.70 points

16% slightly higher Blender score

172.91 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8934 points

9559 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1072 points

1990 points

85% 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

4.9 GHz

40% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

135 W

45 W

200% 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

183rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v4 Family

Ryzen PRO 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 February

2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

DDR5

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 9 PRO 6950H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2690 v4 beats the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H 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 9 PRO 6950H has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2690 v4. Also, the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H 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.

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.