Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7500F

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 12 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 1304.10
$ 188.99
$ 1115.11 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5072 points
7573 points
49% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5077 points
10596 points
108% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5065 points
6600 points
30% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5049 points
6379 points
26% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

110.36 points
197.05 points
78% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4332 points
12599 points
190% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

561 points
2751 points
390% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
100% significantly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
100% significantly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.7 GHz
3.70 GHz
37% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz
5 GHz
42% much higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W
65 W
100% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
100% significantly more memory channels
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

343rd of 1,089
164th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v2 Family
Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 August
2023 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
-

Xeon E5-2697 v2 vs Ryzen 5 7500F comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 7500F is faster than the Xeon E5-2697 v2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2697 v2 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2697 v2 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 7500F. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2697 v2 has 12 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 7500F. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7500F. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 7500F has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2697 v2. Also, the Ryzen 5 7500F has a much higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7500F outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2697 v2 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2697 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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