Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2 vs AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 12 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 16 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

11380 points

124% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5077 points

10581 points

108% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5065 points

11723 points

131% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5049 points

11982 points

137% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

110.36 points

538.07 points

387% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.7 GHz

8% slightly higher clock speed

2.5 GHz

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

55 W

136% 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

61st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v2 Family

Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 August

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 9955HX specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 9955HX beats the Xeon E5-2697 v2 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2697 v2 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 9955HX has slightly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Xeon E5-2697 v2 has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2697 v2. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2697 v2 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 9955HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 9955HX has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 9955HX 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.