Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4 vs AMD Ryzen 5 8645HS

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
18% slightly better overall score
7040 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6186 points
9593 points
55% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9116 points
46% significantly better multitasking score
6234 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9598 points
59% significantly better heavy workload score
6029 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

224.42 points
43% significantly higher Blender score
156.82 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16
166% significantly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

32
166% significantly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.60 GHz
4.30 GHz
65% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz
5 GHz
38% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

145 W
45 W
222% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
100% significantly more memory channels
2

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
189th 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
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600
DDR5 (FP7r2)

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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Xeon E5-2697A v4 vs Ryzen 5 8645HS comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 8645HS 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 8645HS. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has 16 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 8645HS. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 8645HS. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 8645HS has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2697A v4. Also, the Ryzen 5 8645HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 8645HS outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2697A v4 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 8645HS has more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-2697A v4. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 8645HS.

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.

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