Intel Xeon E5-2696 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 7 5700X

Compare Intel 18 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 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

6495 points
7399 points
13% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5724 points
8984 points
56% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6803 points
6877 points
1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6991 points
3% slightly better heavy workload score
6735 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6829 points
6914 points
1% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

231.70 points
11% slightly higher Blender score
207.23 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7392 points
9632 points
30% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1060 points
2079 points
96% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8186 points
9706 points
18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1134 points
2147 points
89% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

18
125% significantly more cores
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

36
125% significantly more threads
16

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

145 W
65 W
123% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

221st of 1,089
170th of 1,089

Family

The product line

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Ryzen 7 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

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Yes

Xeon E5-2696 v3 vs Ryzen 7 5700X comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 5700X beats the Xeon E5-2696 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2696 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2696 v3 has significantly more cores with 18 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 5700X has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5700X. The Ryzen 7 5700X outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2696 v3 thanks to a significantly 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 E5-2696 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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