Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4 vs AMD Ryzen 9 8945HX

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

8535 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6186 points

8107 points

31% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9116 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

8825 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9598 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

9118 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

224.42 points

468.88 points

108% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.60 GHz

3% slightly higher clock speed

2.50 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

5.4 GHz

49% 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

100% significantly more memory channels

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

16 MiB

300% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

40 MiB

64 MiB

60% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

134th of 1,089

124th 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 8945HX comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 8945HX beats the Xeon E5-2697A v4 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2697A v4 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 8945HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 8945HX has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 8945HX 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 9 8945HX has more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-2697A v4. The Ryzen 9 8945HX also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.