Intel Xeon E5-2698 v3 vs AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 16 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen Z1 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

6109 points

6328 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5454 points

7752 points

42% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6350 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

5895 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6447 points

11% slightly better heavy workload score

5789 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

190.75 points

12% slightly higher Blender score

169.56 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7350 points

9595 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1043 points

2167 points

107% 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

3.30 GHz

43% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

5.1 GHz

41% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

135 W

28 W

382% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

245th of 1,089

234th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Ryzen Z1

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2698 v3 vs Ryzen Z1 Extreme benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen Z1 Extreme 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 Z1 Extreme has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen Z1 Extreme. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen Z1 Extreme has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2698 v3. Also, the Ryzen Z1 Extreme has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen Z1 Extreme 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.

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