Intel Xeon E5-2696 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 7 7700

Compare Intel 18 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

Benchmark Score
Other Benchmarks
Specifications
Comments (0)
Popular Comparisons

CPU Comparison

Quickly search and compare processors

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6495 points

10741 points

65% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5724 points

12741 points

122% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6803 points

10051 points

47% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6991 points

9837 points

40% slightly better heavy workload score

Free CPU Benchmark

Want to compare your processor against the Xeon E5-2696 v3 and the Ryzen 7 7700? Download our free and quick PC Performance Test.

Download CPU Benchmark

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6829 points

8548 points

25% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

231.70 points

266.15 points

14% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7392 points

14475 points

95% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1060 points

2771 points

161% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8186 points

14835 points

81% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1134 points

2879 points

153% 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

65 W

123% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

221st of 1,089

74th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Xeon E5-2696 v3 vs Ryzen 7 7700 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 7700 is faster 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.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 7700. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 has 18 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 7700. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7700. The Ryzen 7 7700 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.

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 E5-2696 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.