Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2 vs AMD Ryzen 7 7700

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 12 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 7 7700

Price

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$ 1304.10

$ 276.36

$ 1027.74 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5072 points

10739 points

111% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5077 points

12739 points

150% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5065 points

10048 points

98% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5049 points

9834 points

94% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

110.36 points

266.15 points

141% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4379 points

14475 points

230% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

564 points

2771 points

391% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4332 points

14835 points

242% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

561 points

2879 points

413% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.7 GHz

3.80 GHz

40% slightly 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

65 W

100% 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

74th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v2 Family

Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 August

2023 January

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 7 7700 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 7700 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 7 7700 has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7700. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7700 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2697 v2. Also, the Ryzen 7 7700 has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 7700 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.

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.