Intel Xeon E5-2697 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 7 9700X

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 14 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 255.59
$ 45.97 slightly less expensive
$ 301.56

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5922 points
11176 points
88% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5151 points
13815 points
168% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6183 points
10299 points
66% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6280 points
10053 points
60% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

192.94 points
302.05 points
56% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7404 points
16965 points
129% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1086 points
3349 points
208% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

14
75% significantly more cores
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

28
75% significantly more threads
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz
3.8 GHz
46% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz
5.5 GHz
52% significantly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

145 W
65 W
123% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
100% significantly more memory channels
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

273rd of 1,124
73rd of 1,124

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family
Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August
2024 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
-

Xeon E5-2697 v3 vs Ryzen 7 9700X specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 9700X beats the Xeon E5-2697 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2697 v3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2697 v3 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 9700X. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2697 v3 has 14 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 9700X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 9700X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 9700X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2697 v3. Also, the Ryzen 7 9700X has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 9700X outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2697 v3 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 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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