Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4 vs AMD Ryzen 7 260

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 16 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 200 Series 8 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

5% slightly better overall score

7924 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6186 points

9428 points

52% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9116 points

22% slightly better multitasking score

7435 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9598 points

31% slightly better heavy workload score

7295 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

224.42 points

115% significantly higher Blender score

104.21 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.60 GHz

3.80 GHz

46% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

5.1 GHz

41% 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

100% significantly more memory channels

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

8 MiB

100% 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

150th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v4 Family

Ryzen 200 Series

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

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 7 260 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 is faster than the Ryzen 7 260. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 260 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 7 260 that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 260. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 260 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2697A v4. Also, the Ryzen 7 260 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 260 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 7 260 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 7 260.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.