Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2 vs AMD Ryzen 7 7700X

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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Price

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$ 1304.10
$ 246.84
$ 1057.26 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5072 points
10008 points
97% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5077 points
12170 points
139% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5065 points
9291 points
83% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5049 points
9088 points
79% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

110.36 points
281.95 points
155% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4379 points
15168 points
246% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

564 points
2857 points
406% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4332 points
15466 points
257% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

561 points
2977 points
430% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
49% significantly more cores
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
49% significantly more threads
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.7 GHz
4.50 GHz
66% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz
5.4 GHz
54% 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

4
100% significantly more memory channels
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

343rd of 1,089
89th 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
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 7 7700X specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 7700X 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.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2697 v2 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 7700X. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2697 v2 has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 7700X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7700X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 7700X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2697 v2. Also, the Ryzen 7 7700X has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 7700X 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.

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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