Intel Core i7-2600 vs Intel Xeon E5-2660 v3

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2660 v3

Price

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$ 226.37

$ 189.95

$ 36.42 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2539 points

3996 points

57% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3984 points

4213 points

5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2108 points

3900 points

85% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2031 points

3849 points

89% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

38.63 points

129.03 points

234% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2047 points

5920 points

189% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

608 points

975 points

60% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2040 points

5959 points

192% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

610 points

985 points

61% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

150% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

150% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz

30% slightly higher clock speed

2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

15% slightly higher turbo speed

3.3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

10% slightly lower TDP

105 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

150% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

768 GiB

2299% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

619th of 1,089

436th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR4-1600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i7-2600 vs Xeon E5-2660 v3 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2660 v3 performs better than the Core i7-2600. Despite this, the Core i7-2600 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2660 v3 has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i7-2600 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-2600. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-2600 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2660 v3. Also, the Core i7-2600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-2600 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2660 v3 CPU because of its slightly 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 i7-2600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.