Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7640HS

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 12 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7000 Series 6 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

5072 points

6306 points

24% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5077 points

8479 points

67% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5065 points

5619 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5049 points

5454 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

110.36 points

163.82 points

48% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4332 points

9274 points

114% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

561 points

2302 points

310% 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

4.30 GHz

59% significantly 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

54 W

140% significantly 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

235th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v2 Family

Ryzen 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 August

2023 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2697 v2 vs Ryzen 5 7640HS comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 7640HS performs better 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2697 v2 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 7640HS has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7640HS. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 7640HS has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2697 v2. Also, the Ryzen 5 7640HS has a much higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7640HS 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.

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 E5-2697 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.