Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4 vs AMD Ryzen 7 8840U

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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8324 points
7% slightly better overall score
7756 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6186 points
10179 points
64% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9116 points
30% slightly better multitasking score
6990 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9598 points
41% slightly better heavy workload score
6806 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

224.42 points
32% slightly higher Blender score
169.90 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8264 points
9309 points
12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1062 points
2179 points
105% 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
3.30 GHz
26% slightly 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
28 W
417% 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
150% significantly more L3 cache
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

134th of 1,089
156th 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
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600
DDR5 (FP7r2)

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

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No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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Xeon E5-2697A v4 vs Ryzen 7 8840U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 beats the Ryzen 7 8840U in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 8840U 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 8840U that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 8840U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 8840U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2697A v4. Also, the Ryzen 7 8840U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 8840U 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 8840U 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 8840U.

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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