Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4 vs AMD Ryzen 9 7900

Xeon E5-2697A v4 vs Ryzen 9 7900 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 7900 is faster 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 slightly more cores than the Ryzen 9 7900. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has 16 cores compared to 12 cores found in the Ryzen 9 7900. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 7900. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7900 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2697A v4. Also, the Ryzen 9 7900 has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 7900 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. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 9 7900 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon E5-2697A v4. The Ryzen 9 7900 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.