Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4 vs AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 16 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 8000 Series 16 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
10700 points
28% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6186 points
10758 points
73% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9116 points
10731 points
17% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9598 points
10842 points
12% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

224.42 points
458.15 points
104% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16
Identical
16

Threads

Number of logical processing units

32
Identical
32

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.60 GHz
2.9 GHz
11% slightly 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
55 W
163% 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
Identical
4 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

40 MiB
400% significantly more L3 cache
8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

134th of 1,089
75th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v4 Family
Ryzen 8000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 February
2025 April

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 9 8940HX benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 8940HX 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.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 8940HX has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2697A v4. Also, the Ryzen 9 8940HX has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 8940HX 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 data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Xeon E5-2697A v4 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.

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