Intel Xeon E5-2698 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 7 5700X

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 16 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 7 5700X

Price

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$ 729.95

$ 212.99

$ 516.96 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6109 points

7399 points

21% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5454 points

8984 points

64% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6350 points

6877 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6447 points

6735 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

190.75 points

207.23 points

8% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6221 points

9632 points

54% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

950 points

2079 points

118% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7350 points

9706 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1043 points

2147 points

105% 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

2.3 GHz

3.40 GHz

47% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

4.6 GHz

27% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

135 W

65 W

107% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

245th of 1,089

170th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Ryzen 7 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2698 v3 vs Ryzen 7 5700X comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 5700X is faster than the Xeon E5-2698 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2698 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2698 v3 has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 5700X has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5700X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 5700X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2698 v3. Also, the Ryzen 7 5700X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 5700X outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2698 v3 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 E5-2698 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.