Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4 vs AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 16 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen PRO 6000 Series 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

16% slightly better overall score

7135 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6186 points

9019 points

45% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9116 points

39% slightly better multitasking score

6520 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9598 points

51% significantly better heavy workload score

6356 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

224.42 points

29% slightly higher Blender score

172.91 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8264 points

9559 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1062 points

1990 points

87% 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

4.9 GHz

36% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

145 W

45 W

222% 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

Identical

4 MiB

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

183rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v4 Family

Ryzen PRO 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 February

2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

DDR5

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 9 PRO 6950H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H 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.

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 9 PRO 6950H that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2697A v4. Also, the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H 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. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. 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.