Intel Xeon E5-2696 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 7 6800U

Compare Intel 18 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

6495 points

5% slightly better overall score

6163 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5724 points

7894 points

37% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6803 points

21% slightly better multitasking score

5606 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6991 points

27% slightly better heavy workload score

5474 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6829 points

32% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

5170 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

231.70 points

55% significantly higher Blender score

148.55 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7392 points

7536 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1060 points

1792 points

69% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8186 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

7407 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1134 points

1713 points

51% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

125% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

125% significantly more threads

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

145 W

15 W

866% significantly lower TDP

Other details

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Ranking in the hardwareDB database

221st of 1,089

242nd of 1,089

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Xeon E5-2696 v3 vs Ryzen 7 6800U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 6800U performs better than the Xeon E5-2696 v3. 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 6800U has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 6800U. The Ryzen 7 6800U 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.