Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4 vs AMD Ryzen 5 9600

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 16 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 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
8451 points
1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6186 points
12073 points
95% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9116 points
24% slightly better multitasking score
7298 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9598 points
36% slightly better heavy workload score
7044 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

224.42 points
1% slightly higher Blender score
221.97 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8264 points
14339 points
73% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1062 points
3205 points
201% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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
3.8 GHz
46% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz
5.2 GHz
44% significantly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

145 W
65 W
123% 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
25% slightly more L3 cache
32 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

134th of 1,089
128th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v4 Family
Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 February
2025 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
-

Xeon E5-2697A v4 vs Ryzen 5 9600 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 9600 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.

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 9600. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has 16 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 9600. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 9600. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 9600 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2697A v4. Also, the Ryzen 5 9600 has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 9600 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 9600 has 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 9600.

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.

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