Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7600X

Xeon E5-2697A v4 vs Ryzen 5 7600X benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 7600X beats the Xeon E5-2697A v4 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2697A v4 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 7600X. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has 16 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 7600X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7600X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7600X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2697A v4. Also, the Ryzen 5 7600X has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7600X outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2697A v4 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7600X 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 Ryzen 5 7600X.

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