Intel Xeon E5-2696 v3 vs AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3975WX s

Compare Intel 18 core CPU vs AMD 32 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2696 v3

AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3975WX s

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6495 points

12880 points

98% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5724 points

7990 points

39% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6803 points

14704 points

116% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6991 points

15750 points

125% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

231.70 points

689.14 points

197% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

77% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12% slightly more threads

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221st of 1,089

44th of 1,089

Xeon E5-2696 v3 vs Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3975WX s specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3975WX s 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3975WX s has significantly more cores with 32 cores compared to the Xeon E5-2696 v3 that has 18 cores. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 has more threads than the Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3975WX s.

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.