Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4 vs AMD Ryzen 7 5800XT

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 16 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5000 Series 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 1277.90
$ 199.20
$ 1078.70 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8324 points
1% slightly better overall score
8204 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6186 points
9603 points
55% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9116 points
17% slightly better multitasking score
7740 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9598 points
26% slightly better heavy workload score
7593 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

224.42 points
4% slightly higher Blender score
214.43 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16
100% significantly more cores
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

32
100% significantly more threads
16

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
4.8 GHz
33% 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

4
100% significantly more memory channels
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
Identical
4 MiB

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
140th 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 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600
DDR4

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 7 5800XT comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 5800XT 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 5800XT that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5800XT. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 5800XT has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2697A v4. Also, the Ryzen 7 5800XT has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 5800XT outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2697A v4 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Xeon E5-2697A v4 also has slightly more L3 cache.

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.

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