Intel Xeon Silver 4210R vs AMD Ryzen 9 7900X

Compare Intel 2nd Generation Xeon Scalable 10 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 12 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 524.63
$ 314.49
$ 210.14 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6883 points
13554 points
96% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5843 points
13457 points
130% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7219 points
13583 points
88% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7294 points
13587 points
86% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

163.91 points
412.82 points
151% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6126 points
17750 points
189% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1087 points
2946 points
171% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

10
12
20% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

20
24
20% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz
4.7 GHz
95% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.2 GHz
5.6 GHz
75% significantly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

100 W
69% significantly lower TDP
170 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

48
100% significantly more pcie lanes
24

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

6
200% significantly more memory channels
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

199th of 1,089
36th of 1,089

Family

The product line

2nd Generation Xeon Scalable
Ryzen 9 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 February
2022 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
Yes

Xeon Silver 4210R vs Ryzen 9 7900X comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 7900X is faster than the Xeon Silver 4210R. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon Silver 4210R in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 7900X has slightly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Xeon Silver 4210R has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon Silver 4210R. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7900X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon Silver 4210R. Also, the Ryzen 9 7900X has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Xeon Silver 4210R CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 9 7900X CPU because of its 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 Silver 4210R has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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