Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4 vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 16 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 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

18% slightly better overall score

7028 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6186 points

8379 points

35% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9116 points

37% slightly better multitasking score

6623 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9598 points

47% significantly better heavy workload score

6517 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

224.42 points

36% slightly higher Blender score

164.73 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8264 points

9396 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1062 points

2142 points

101% 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

3.30 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

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

191st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v4 Family

Ryzen 7 PRO

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 February

2023 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

DDR5 (FP7r2)

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 PRO 7840U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 is faster than the Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U 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 PRO 7840U that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2697A v4. Also, the Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U has significantly 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 PRO 7840U.

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.