Intel Xeon X5670 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7640HS

Compare Intel Xeon 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7000 Series 6 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

3118 points

6306 points

102% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4250 points

8479 points

99% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2751 points

5619 points

104% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2664 points

5454 points

104% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

51.81 points

163.82 points

216% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2310 points

9274 points

301% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

491 points

2302 points

368% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.93 GHz

4.30 GHz

46% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.33 GHz

5 GHz

50% significantly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

54 W

75% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

49% significantly more memory channels

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB

6 MiB

300% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB

16 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

522nd of 1,089

235th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon

Ryzen 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2010 February

2023 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon X5670 vs Ryzen 5 7640HS benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 7640HS beats the Xeon X5670 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon X5670 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 7640HS has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon X5670. Also, the Ryzen 5 7640HS has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7640HS outputs less heat than Xeon X5670 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 7640HS has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon X5670. The Ryzen 5 7640HS also has slightly 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 X5670 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.