Intel Xeon E5-2696 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 3700

Compare Intel 18 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 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

6502 points

0.11% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5724 points

7833 points

36% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6803 points

12% slightly better multitasking score

6045 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6991 points

18% slightly better heavy workload score

5906 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

231.70 points

25% slightly higher Blender score

184.03 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8186 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

7993 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1134 points

1652 points

45% 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

220th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 PRO Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Xeon E5-2696 v3 vs Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 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 PRO 3700 has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700.

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.