Intel Xeon E5-2696 v3 vs AMD Ryzen AI 7 350

Compare Intel 18 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen AI 300 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

6495 points

8140 points

25% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5724 points

10346 points

80% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6803 points

7437 points

9% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6991 points

7255 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

231.70 points

13% slightly higher Blender score

204.54 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8186 points

11339 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1134 points

2485 points

119% 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

28 W

417% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

221st of 1,089

143rd of 1,089

Family

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Ryzen AI 300 Series

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5

Xeon E5-2696 v3 vs Ryzen AI 7 350 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen AI 7 350 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2696 v3 has significantly more cores with 18 cores compared to the Ryzen AI 7 350 that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen AI 7 350. The Ryzen AI 7 350 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.