Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4 vs Intel Core i7-14650HX

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 16 core CPU vs Intel Core i7 (14th gen) 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

8324 points

10831 points

30% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6186 points

12542 points

102% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9116 points

10318 points

13% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9598 points

10235 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

224.42 points

278.01 points

23% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8264 points

12989 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1062 points

2416 points

127% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.60 GHz

18% slightly higher clock speed

2.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

5.2 GHz

44% significantly higher turbo speed

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

100% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

24 MiB

499% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

40 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

30 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

134th of 1,089

72nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v4 Family

Core i7 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 February

2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

DDR5-5600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2697A v4 vs Core i7-14650HX comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-14650HX performs better than the Xeon E5-2697A v4. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2697A v4 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-14650HX. Despite this, the Core i7-14650HX has a significantly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-14650HX has significantly more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-2697A v4. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-14650HX.

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 E5-2697A v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.