Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4 vs AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 16 core CPU vs AMD 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D

Price

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$ 1277.90

$ 329.99

$ 947.91 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8324 points

19% slightly better overall score

6994 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6186 points

8202 points

32% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9116 points

38% slightly better multitasking score

6575 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9598 points

49% significantly better heavy workload score

6440 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

224.42 points

19% slightly higher Blender score

187.18 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8264 points

10106 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1062 points

1922 points

80% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

3.58 GHz

37% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

4.1 GHz

13% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

145 W

105 W

38% slightly 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

Identical

4 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

40 MiB

96 MiB

139% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

134th of 1,089

194th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v4 Family

Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 February

2024 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

DDR4

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2697A v4 vs Ryzen 7 5700X3D specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 5700X3D 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.

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 5700X3D that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5700X3D. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 5700X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2697A v4. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Ryzen 7 5700X3D also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.