Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4 vs AMD Ryzen 5 8640HS

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 16 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 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

8324 points

29% slightly better overall score

6405 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6186 points

9018 points

45% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9116 points

62% significantly better multitasking score

5593 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9598 points

77% significantly better heavy workload score

5403 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

224.42 points

46% significantly higher Blender score

153.60 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8264 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

7982 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1062 points

2119 points

99% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

166% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

166% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.60 GHz

3.50 GHz

34% 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

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

6 MiB

49% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

40 MiB

150% significantly more L3 cache

16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

134th of 1,089

227th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v4 Family

Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

DDR5 (FP7r2)

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2697A v4 vs Ryzen 5 8640HS specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 beats the Ryzen 5 8640HS in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 8640HS has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 8640HS that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 8640HS. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 8640HS has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2697A v4. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 8640HS has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon E5-2697A v4. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 8640HS.

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.