Intel Core i5-10500 vs Intel Xeon E5-1660 v3

Core i5-10500 vs Xeon E5-1660 v3 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-10500 performs better than the Xeon E5-1660 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1660 v3 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-1660 v3 has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i5-10500 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-10500. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-10500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-1660 v3. Also, the Core i5-10500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-10500 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1660 v3 CPU because of its 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 Core i5-10500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.