Intel Xeon E5-2697 v3 vs AMD Ryzen Z1

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 14 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen Z1 6 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

5860 points

5874 points

0.24% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4866 points

8265 points

69% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6204 points

19% slightly better multitasking score

5178 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6340 points

26% slightly better heavy workload score

5019 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

192.94 points

44% significantly higher Blender score

133.44 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7404 points

8200 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1086 points

2231 points

105% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

133% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

133% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz

3.20 GHz

23% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

4.9 GHz

36% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

145 W

28 W

417% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

263rd of 1,089

261st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Ryzen Z1

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2697 v3 vs Ryzen Z1 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen Z1 performs better than the Xeon E5-2697 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2697 v3 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2697 v3 has significantly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Ryzen Z1 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen Z1. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen Z1 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2697 v3. Also, the Ryzen Z1 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen Z1 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.

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 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.