Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7600X

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

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AMD Ryzen 5 7600X

Price

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$ 1304.10

$ 177.00

$ 1127.10 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5072 points

8583 points

69% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5077 points

11637 points

129% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5065 points

7604 points

50% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5049 points

7365 points

45% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

110.36 points

208.44 points

88% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4379 points

12562 points

186% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

564 points

2799 points

396% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4332 points

12876 points

197% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

561 points

2889 points

414% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.7 GHz

4.70 GHz

74% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz

5.3 GHz

51% significantly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W

105 W

23% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

343rd of 1,089

121st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v2 Family

Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 August

2022 September

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 7600X comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 7600X beats the Xeon E5-2697 v2 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2697 v2 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2697 v2 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 7600X has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7600X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 7600X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2697 v2. Also, the Ryzen 5 7600X has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7600X outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2697 v2 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2697 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.