Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4 vs AMD Ryzen 7 7700

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 16 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 1277.90
$ 276.36
$ 1001.54 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8324 points
10739 points
29% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6186 points
12739 points
105% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9116 points
10048 points
10% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9598 points
9834 points
2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

224.42 points
266.15 points
18% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8264 points
14835 points
79% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1062 points
2879 points
171% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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
5.3 GHz
47% 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
8 MiB
100% 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
74th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v4 Family
Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 February
2023 January

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 7 7700 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 7700 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 7 7700. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has 16 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 7700. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7700. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7700 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2697A v4. Also, the Ryzen 7 7700 has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 7700 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 7700 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 7 7700.

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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