Intel Xeon E5-2699 v3 vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 3700

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 18 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO Desktop 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 3700

Price

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$ 529.95

$ 1053.05 significantly less expensive

$ 1583.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6700 points

3% slightly better overall score

6502 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5199 points

7833 points

50% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7270 points

20% slightly better multitasking score

6045 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7597 points

28% slightly better heavy workload score

5906 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

219.38 points

19% slightly higher Blender score

184.03 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

125% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

125% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz

3.6 GHz

56% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

4.4 GHz

22% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

145 W

65 W

123% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

210th of 1,089

220th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Ryzen 7 PRO Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

2019 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2699 v3 vs Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 beats the Xeon E5-2699 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2699 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2699 v3 has significantly more cores with 18 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2699 v3. Also, the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2699 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 E5-2699 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.