Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2 vs AMD Ryzen 9 7900

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 12 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9 12 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 9 7900

Price

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$ 1304.10

$ 407.55

$ 896.55 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5072 points

13078 points

157% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5077 points

13206 points

160% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5065 points

13028 points

157% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5049 points

13011 points

157% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

110.36 points

394.92 points

257% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4379 points

16762 points

282% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

564 points

2797 points

395% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4332 points

16768 points

287% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

561 points

2868 points

411% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

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

5.4 GHz

54% 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

40th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v2 Family

Ryzen 9

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 9 7900 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 7900 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.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 7900 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2697 v2. Also, the Ryzen 9 7900 has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 7900 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.