AMD Ryzen 7 4700U vs Intel Xeon E7-8870

AMD Ryzen 7 4700U
AMD Socket FP6MOBILE
1800 MHz / Cores: 8 / Jan 2020
AMD Ryzen 7 4700U
Intel Xeon E7-8870
Intel Socket 1567SERVER
2400 MHz / Cores: 10 / Apr 2011
Intel Xeon E7-8870

Summary

Reasons to consider AMD Ryzen 7 4700U

105 watts lower power draw.
This is a newer product, it might have better application compatibility/performance (check features chart below).
Has an integrated GPU, which allows to run the system without a dedicated graphics card, unlike the Intel Xeon E7-8870.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on raw specifications plus core architecture.

Reasons to consider Intel Xeon E7-8870

Higher theoretical multi-threaded performance, based on raw specifications plus core architecture.

AMD Ryzen 7 4700U

Gaming

HWBench recommends AMD Ryzen 7 4700U

Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.

No winner

Productivity

No clear winner declared



Specifications

Features

AMD Ryzen 7 4700UIntel Xeon E7-8870
MMX
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSSE3
SSE4A
SSE4.1
SSE4.2
AES
AVX
AVX2
BMI1
BMI2
SHA
F16C
FMA3
AMD64
EVP
AMD-V
SMAP
SMEP
SMT
Precision Boost 2
Intel 64
Hyper-Threading
EIST
XD-Bit
VT-x
VT-c
VT-d
EPT
TXT
AES-NI
DDDC

Architecture

AMD Ryzen 7 4700UIntel Xeon E7-8870
ArchitectureAMD Zen 2vsIntel_Westmere
MarketMobilevsServer
Memory SupportDDR4-4266 MHz Dual-channelvsDDR3
CodenameRenoirvsWestmere-EX
Release DateJan 2020vsApr 2011

Cores

AMD Ryzen 7 4700UIntel Xeon E7-8870
Cores8vs10
Threads8vs20
SMPs1vs4
Integrated GraphicsRadeon Graphics 448SPvsNo

Cache

AMD Ryzen 7 4700UIntel Xeon E7-8870
L1 Cache128K (per core)vs64 KB (per core)
L2 Cache512K (per core)vs256 KB (per core)
L3 Cache12MB (shared)vs30720 KB (shared)

Physical

AMD Ryzen 7 4700UIntel Xeon E7-8870
SocketAMD Socket FP6vsIntel Socket 1567
Max Case TempN/Avsunknown
PackagevsFC-LGA10
Die Sizeunknownvs513mm²
Process7 nmvs32 nm

Performance

AMD Ryzen 7 4700UIntel Xeon E7-8870
Cpu Frequency1800 MHzvs2400 MHz
Turbo Clock4200 MHzvsnone
Base Clock100 MHzvs133 MHz
VoltageN/Avs1.35 V
TDP25 Wvs130 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 7 4700U
    4704 points
  • Intel Xeon E7-8870
    1920 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 7 4700U
    16128 points
  • Intel Xeon E7-8870
    19200 points

Points - higher is better